Molten salt reactor technology as applied to separation and transmutation option

The most important developments regarding the available options to reduce actinide inventory will be discussed. The relation between necessary single cycle transmuted fraction, fuel cycle processing losses and total losses to waste will be defined. An attempt is made to arrange the possible systems on order performance with regard to their potential to reduce the actinide inventory and actinide losses to wastes. The objective of this paper is to illustrate clearly the potential advantages of molten salt fluoride based reactor technology integrated with innovative processing methods including reductive extraction, electrorefining and electrodeposition relative to traditional ones. Also, this contribution aims to review the status of molten salt reactor technology, (including Russian experience), to evaluate the importance of remaining uncertainties and to identify the additional work needed. (author)