Closing the fuel cycle: the industrial demonstration
The progressive implementation of some key nuclear fuel cycle capacities in a country corresponds to a strategy for the acquisition of an independent energy source. France, Japan, and some European countries are engaged in such strategic programs. In France, COGEMA, the nuclear fuel company, has now completed the industrial demonstration of the closed fuel cycle. Its experience covers every step of the front-end and of the back-end: transportation of spent fuels, storage, reprocessing, waste conditioning. The La Hague reprocessing plant smooth operation, as well as the large investment program under active progress can testify of full mastering of this industry. Together with other French and European companies, COGEMA is engaged in the recycling industry, both for uranium through conversion of uranyl nitrate for its further re-enrichment, and for plutonium through MOX fuel fabrication. Reprocessing and recycling offer the optimum solution for a complete, economic, safe and future-oriented fuel cycle, hence contributing to the necessary development of nuclear energy.
- Research Organization:
- COGEMA, Velizy-Villacoublay (France)
- OSTI ID:
- 6368985
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-870905-
- Journal Information:
- Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States), Journal Name: Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States) Vol. 56:1; ISSN TANSA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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