Published September 1994
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Report
Plutonium arisings and utilization in the United Kingdom
Description
The UK has presently 11.1 GW installed nuclear generating capacity with an additional 1.2 GW under construction. Plutonium is separated domestically at Sellafield and will be separated for both domestic and foreign customers in the THORP facility which is now complete but not yet in operation. Current stocks of separated plutonium at Sellafield are 35 tonnes. Total plutonium arisings from AGR fuel will be 58 t; 15 t additional plutonium will come from LWR fuel reprocessed at THORP. Plutonium will be utilized in LWRs since fast reactor deployment has been delayed till after 2030, and there is no incentive to use plutonium in AGRs which require only low enrichment fuels. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Problems concerning the accumulation of separated plutonium. Report of an advisory group meeting held in Vienna, 26-29 April 1993
- Imprint Pagination
- 69 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 63-65.
- ISSN
- 1011-4289
- Report number
- IAEA-TECDOC--765
Conference
- Title
- Advisory group meeting on problems concerning the accumulation of separated plutonium.
- Dates
- 26-29 Apr 1993.
- Place
- Vienna (Austria).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 26009638
- Subject category
- S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS; MIXED OXIDE FUELS; PLUTONIUM; PLUTONIUM RECYCLE; REPROCESSING; SPENT FUEL STORAGE; SPENT FUELS; UNITED KINGDOM
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY SOURCES; EUROPE; FUEL CYCLE; FUELS; MATERIALS; METALS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEAR FUELS; REACTOR MATERIALS; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SOLID FUELS; STORAGE; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS