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Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC)

The Working Party on Scientific Issues of Advanced Fuel Cycles (WPFC) studies advanced nuclear fuel cycles, including fuel cycle scenarios, innovative fuels and materials, separation chemistry, waste...

Nuclear fuel WPFC Fuel studies Nuclear science Liquid metal reactors Thermal hydraulics and mechanics Reactor fuel performance NSC Nuclear innovation Fuel cycle technology Partitioning and transmutation Fuel cycle physics and chemistry …
Published date: 21 August 2024
Publications and Reports
Strategies and Considerations for the Back End of the Fuel Cycle

A wealth of technical information exists on nuclear fuel cycle options – combinations of nuclear fuel types, reactor types, used or spent nuclear fuel (SNF) treatments, and disposal schemes – and mos...

English Sustainable development Nuclear technology Fuel cycle technology BEST Back-end Nuclear fuel cycle Nuclear economics …
Published date: 22 February 2021
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New NEA task force on partitioning and transmutation kicks off

New NEA task force on partitioning and transmutation kicks off

Nuclear science Advanced reactor systems Nuclear technology Actinides Radioactive waste management Fuel cycle technology Partitioning and transmutation Fuel cycle physics and chemistry Sustainable development and nuclear energy …
Published date: 27 January 2021
Publications and Reports
Physics of Plutonium Recycling - Volume III

The quality of the isotopic composition of plutonium fuel degrades as the number of recycles increases in thermal reactors, requiring an increase in the total loading necessary in mixed plutonium-ura...

English Nuclear science Plutonium Liquid metal reactors Advanced reactors Reactor physics Recycling and reuse Reactor physics NSC Gas-cooled reactors Fuel cycle technology Fuel cycle physics and chemistry Pressurised water reactors …
Published date: 17 November 2020
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Expert Group on Back-end Strategies (BEST)

The goal of the Expert Group on Back-end Strategies (BEST) was to identify aspects of significant importance to countries’ decisions on whether to deploy partially and fully closed nuclear fuel cycle...

Sustainable development Nuclear economics Nuclear technology Fuel cycle technology BEST Nuclear fuel cycle …
Published date: 22 July 2020
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Nuclear technology Fuel cycle technology
Published date: 2 July 2020
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Fuel cycle technology

Fuel cycle technology and innovation relates to all stages of the nuclear fuel cycle, from the latest uranium enrichment technologies to design and implementation of small modular reactors (SMRs).

Nuclear technology Fuel cycle technology
Published date: 6 May 2020
Publications and Reports
Physics of Plutonium Recycling - Volume IX

The NEA has studied multiple recycling issues associated with various reactor systems fuelled with mixed-oxide (MOX) and published a series of computational physics benchmarks. This has led to improv...

English Nuclear science Plutonium Liquid metal reactors Advanced reactors Reactor physics Recycling and reuse Reactor physics NSC Gas-cooled reactors Fuel cycle technology Fuel cycle physics and chemistry Pressurised water reactors …
Published date: 21 June 2007
Publications and Reports
Physics of Plutonium Recycling - Volume VIII

The NEA has studied multiple recycling issues associated with various reactor systems fuelled with mixed-oxide (MOX) and published a series of computational physics benchmarks. This has led to improv...

English Nuclear science Plutonium Liquid metal reactors Advanced reactors Reactor physics Recycling and reuse Reactor physics NSC Gas-cooled reactors Fuel cycle technology Fuel cycle physics and chemistry Pressurised water reactors …
Published date: 21 June 2007
Publications and Reports
Physics of Plutonium Recycling - Volume VII

The commercial recycling of plutonium as PUO2/UO2 mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel is an established practice in pressurised water reactors (PWRs) in several countries, the main motivation being the consumptio...

English Nuclear science Plutonium Liquid metal reactors Advanced reactors Reactor physics Recycling and reuse Reactor physics NSC Gas-cooled reactors Fuel cycle technology Fuel cycle physics and chemistry Pressurised water reactors …
Published date: 10 March 2003