United States programme on partitioning and transmutation
Description
Document in abstract form only. Full text of publication follows: The United States Department of Energy's Fuel Cycle R and D programme has been redirected over the past year. Rather than pursuing design and construction of current technologies for recycling components of used nuclear fuel in fast reactors, the programme is evaluating or re-evaluating all options for long-term sustainable fuel cycles. Strategies for open, modified open and fully closed fuel cycles are under development. In addition, with the cancellation of the Yucca Mountain project, the programme is evaluating options for used fuel storage, transportation and permanent disposal of high-level waste. The Fuel Cycle R and D programme will develop and demonstrate advanced technologies in order to prepare for commercial deployment of a sustainable fuel cycle by 2050. (authors)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- ISBN
- 978-92-64-99174-3
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the Eleventh Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation
- Imprint Pagination
- 406 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 39
- Report number
- NEA--6996
Conference
- Title
- 11. Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation
- Dates
- 1-4 Nov 2010
- Place
- San Francisco, CA (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD (NEA)
- Country of Input or Organization
- Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD (NEA)
- INIS RN
- 44052615
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCELERATOR DRIVEN TRANSMUTATION; FUEL CYCLE; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; PARTITION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SPENT FUEL STORAGE; USA
- Descriptors DEC
- DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; NORTH AMERICA; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; STORAGE; TRANSMUTATION; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES