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Fast reactor fuel reprocessing in the United Kingdom
- 1. UKAEA Reactor Group, Dounreay. Dounreay Experimental Reactor Establishment
Description
The reprocessing activities at Dounreay in the United Kingdom is presented. In 1958 a plant was built to permit recycling of unburnt U235 from the U/Mo metallic fuel element used in the Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR). The decision to reprocess the irradiated Pu/U oxide fuel from PFR at Dounreay to provide data for the construction of larger reprocessing plants required for commercial fast reactor exploitation, has required considerable modification of the present DFR plant. The modifications include fuel handling, containment and waste management. Special attention is also paid to problems connected with solvent extraction. A brief description of the practical measures taken to carry out the modifications is given
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 7 p.
- Report number
- IAEA-AG--63-4
Conference
- Title
- Advisory group meeting on reprocessing of Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor fuels.
- Dates
- 17 - 21 May 1976.
- Place
- Leningrad, USSR.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 9362342
- Subject category
- S11: NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; S22: GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- DECONTAMINATION; DFR REACTOR; DISSOLUTION; FUEL REPROCESSING PLANTS; HEAD END PROCESSES; PFR REACTOR; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; REPROCESSING; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; UNITED KINGDOM
- Descriptors DEC
- BREEDER REACTORS; CLEANING; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; EPITHERMAL REACTORS; EUROPE; EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS; FAST REACTORS; FBR TYPE REACTORS; LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS; MANAGEMENT; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; POWER REACTORS; REACTORS; RESEARCH AND TEST REACTORS; SEPARATION PROCESSES; SODIUM COOLED REACTORS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT