Proceedings of the 5. International information exchange meeting on actinide and fission product partitioning and transmutation

Partitioning and Transmutation (P and T) has gained interest during the past decade and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency has included P and T in its programme of work since 1988. The Fifth Information Exchange Meeting, hosted by the Nuclear Research Centre SCK CEN and co-organised by the European Commission, was held on 25-27 November 1998 at Mol, Belgium. The programme included 43 oral presentations and 12 posters covering introductory papers, partitioning, fuel and target fabrication, cross-section data, reactor irradiations, comparisons between reactors and accelerator-driven systems as well as long-term radiological impact evaluations. During this meeting, the report 'Status and Assessment Report on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation' was presented as conclusion of the first phase in the OECD-NEA P and T study. This summary addresses the main items and discussions held during this meeting as a general introduction for the interested reader, referring to the respective papers for a complete and comprehensive view on the mentioned subjects. 56 items are indexed separately for the INIS database. (K.A.)