Reducing The Risk Of Unintended Nuclear Chain Reactions In Fuel Reprocessing Date: September 18, 2006 Source: Brookhaven National Laboratory Summary: ...

Reprocessing spent reactor fuel also makes long-term economic sense. Spent fuel reprocessing is a known, 80-year-old technology used by many nations for decades. It helps to reduce the length of time ...

The reprocessing plant at Rokkasho will serve to reuse the very valuable plutonium 239 (Pu 239) fuel and to recycle the uranium, thus extending the world’s nuclear fuel supplies. Paywall-free ...

Today, a look at why we’re stuck with 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste at San Onofre — and a glimpse of the future. The folks who dreamed up America’s peaceful nuclear power program always ...

Thus, France is, in effect, using reprocessing to move its problem with spent fuel from the reactor sites to the reprocessing plant. Japan is following France’s example.

The typically ceramic fuel pellets are then inserted into a fission reactor and the U-235 is exposed to a neutron source that then kickstarts a nuclear chain reaction. Reprocessing And Pyroprocessing ...

The siren song of spent nuclear fuel reprocessing beckons again, selling a sweet melody that, actually, threatens to stymie hopes of a nuclear energy revival in the United States. A tantalizing ...

`In their Jan. 30 op-ed, "A Plan for Nuclear Waste," John Deutch and Ernest J. Moniz made a strong case against a U.S. reprocessing program to extract plutonium from spent nuclear reactor fuel ...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has cleared a major hurdle in making a Generation IV nuclear reactor practical. Using a new process, a team has developed a new way of processing fuel ...

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