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Acar, B.B.; Zabunoglu, H.O., E-mail: banubulutacar@hacettepe.edu.tr
Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors: Learning from the Past, Enabling the Future. Proceedings of an International Conference2020
Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors: Learning from the Past, Enabling the Future. Proceedings of an International Conference2020
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[en] Uranium (U) and Plutonium (Pu) in spent nuclear fuel are obtained as separate and pure streams by the standard reprocessing method, Purex solvent extraction. Economical and technological conditions and safeguard concerns have not allowed the standard Purex (and recycling of the recovered materials) to be an integral part of the nuclear fuel cycle. Easier and cheaper methods to recover U and Pu in spent fuel are worthwhile taking into account. Complete co-processing, based on a Purex scheme, is probably the easiest way of separating U and Pu from spent fuel; in addition, it is advantageous with regard to safeguards because it does not yield pure Pu. Products of complete co-processing are two separate mixtures: (1) U+Pu and (2) Fission Products and Minor Actinides (FPs+MAs). Because U+Pu mixture obtained from spent LWR fuels has a total fissile content of roughly 1.5 weight percent, which is not suitable for LWRs, special approaches are required for recycling in case of complete co-processing. The other product is High Level Waste by definition, which does not contain any isotope usable for energy generation. This study focuses on a scenario in which, after a proper pre-cooling period, the complete co-processing is applied, and U+Pu and FPs+MAs are obtained; then, these mixtures are stored: U+Pu as a potential reserve to be utilized in energy production and FPs+MAs as waste to be permanently disposed of, in the middle and/or long run. The purpose is to investigate effects of such a scenario on the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle. Radio-toxicity levels and compositions of U+Pu and FPs+MAs products of the complete co-processing are determined as a function of the lengths of the storage periods (before and after processing), and several options regarding what to do with them in the long term is discussed and compared. (author)
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International Atomic Energy Agency, Division of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology and Division of Radiation, Transport and Waste Safety, Vienna (Austria); OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, Paris (France); European Commission, Brussels (Belgium); World Nuclear Association, London (United Kingdom); [1 CD-ROM]; ISBN 978-92-0-108620-4;
; May 2020; 8 p; International conference on management of spent fuel from nuclear power reactors: Learning from the past, enabling the future; Vienna (Austria); 24-28 Jun 2019; IAEA-CN--272/13; ISSN 0074-1884;
; Also available on-line: https://www.iaea.org/publications/14680/management-of-spent-fuel-from-nuclear-power-reactors?supplementary=82942; Enquiries should be addressed to IAEA, Marketing and Sales Unit, Publishing Section, E-mail: sales.publications@iaea.org; Web site: http://www.iaea.org/books; 3 refs., 2 figs., 10 tabs.


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