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Plutonium management in the medium term

Hesketh, Kevin
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Schlosser, Gerhard
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Porsch, Dieter F.
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2004
Nuclear Technology

For many years various countries with access to commercial reprocessing services have been routinely recycling plutonium as UO2/PuO 2 mixed oxide (MOX) fuel in light water reactors (LWRs). This LWR MOX recycle strategy is still widely regarded as an interim step leading to the eventual establishment of sustainable fast reactor fuel cycles. The OECD/NEA Working Party on the Physics of Plutonium Fuels and Innovative Fuel Cycles (WPPR) has recently completed a review of the technical options for plutonium management in what it refers to as the "medium terra." For the purpose of the review, the WPPR considers the medium term to cover the period from now up to the point at which fast reactor fuel cycles are established on a commercial scale. The review identified a number of different designs of innovative plutonium fuel assemblies intended to be used in current LWR cores, in LWRs with significantly different moderation properties, as well as in high-temperature gas reactors. The full review report describes these various options and highlights their respective advantages and disadvantages. This paper briefly summarizes the main findings of the review.

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DOI
10.13182/NT04-A3564
Author(s)
Hesketh, Kevin
Schlosser, Gerhard
Porsch, Dieter F.
Wolf, Timm
Koberl, Oliver
Lance, Benoit
Chawla, Rakesh  
Gehin, Jess C.
Ellis, Ron
Uchikawa, Sadao
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Date Issued

2004

Publisher

American Nuclear Society

Published in
Nuclear Technology
Volume

148

Issue

3

Start page

244

End page

258

Subjects

Nuclear fuel reprocessing

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Fast reactors

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Light water reactors

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Mixed oxide fuels

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Plutonium

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Reactor cores

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BNFL, Nucl. Sci. and Technology Services, Preston PR4 OXJ, United Kingdom

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