Fuel Cycle to Nowhere: U.S. Law and Policy on Nuclear Waste by Richard Burleson Stewart and Jane Bloom Stewart (review)

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-218
Author(s):  
Jason Krupar
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Fuel Cycle ◽  
Law And Policy

Nuclear Data for the Thorium Fuel Cycle and the Transmutation of Nuclear Waste

2016 ◽  
pp. 207-214
Author(s):  
F. Gunsing ◽  
S. Altstadt ◽  
J. Andrzejewski ◽  
L. Audouin ◽  
M. Barbagallo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Fuel Cycle ◽  
Nuclear Data

scholarly journals Modeling minor actinide multiple recycling in a lead-cooled fast reactor to demonstrate a fuel cycle without long-lived nuclear waste

Nukleonika ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemysław Stanisz ◽  
Jerzy Cetnar ◽  
Grażyna Domańska
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Fast Reactor ◽  
Fuel Cycle ◽  
Reactor Core ◽  
Nuclear Fuel Cycle ◽  
Minor Actinide ◽  
Closed Nuclear Fuel Cycle ◽  
European Collaboration ◽  
Multiple Recycling

Abstract The concept of closed nuclear fuel cycle seems to be the most promising options for the efficient usage of the nuclear energy resources. However, it can be implemented only in fast breeder reactors of the IVth generation, which are characterized by the fast neutron spectrum. The lead-cooled fast reactor (LFR) was defined and studied on the level of technical design in order to demonstrate its performance and reliability within the European collaboration on ELSY (European Lead-cooled System) and LEADER (Lead-cooled European Advanced Demonstration Reactor) projects. It has been demonstrated that LFR meets the requirements of the closed nuclear fuel cycle, where plutonium and minor actinides (MA) are recycled for reuse, thereby producing no MA waste. In this study, the most promising option was realized when entire Pu + MA material is fully recycled to produce a new batch of fuel without partitioning. This is the concept of a fuel cycle which asymptotically tends to the adiabatic equilibrium, where the concentrations of plutonium and MA at the beginning of the cycle are restored in the subsequent cycle in the combined process of fuel transmutation and cooling, removal of fission products (FPs), and admixture of depleted uranium. In this way, generation of nuclear waste containing radioactive plutonium and MA can be eliminated. The paper shows methodology applied to the LFR equilibrium fuel cycle assessment, which was developed for the Monte Carlo continuous energy burnup (MCB) code, equipped with enhanced modules for material processing and fuel handling. The numerical analysis of the reactor core concerns multiple recycling and recovery of long-lived nuclides and their influence on safety parameters. The paper also presents a general concept of the novel IVth generation breeder reactor with equilibrium fuel and its future role in the management of MA.

Impact on Nuclear Waste Production of Different Fuel Cycle Strategies

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lionel Boucher ◽  
Jean-Paul Grouiller ◽  
Charles Courtois ◽  
Sylvain David ◽  
Matthieu Maurin
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Fuel Cycle ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Single Stage ◽  
French Law ◽  
Waste Production ◽  
French Case ◽  
Phase Out

In the frame of the French law for the researches about waste management, different dynamic scenarios have been studied [1]. These scenarios are considering the French case and start from the present situation, which consists in a single stage of Plutonium recycling in PWRs. The scenarios described in this paper take into account two main options: Continuation of nuclear energy or phase out option.

scholarly journals Evolution and Structure of the Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management

MRS Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (17-18) ◽  
pp. 959-964 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Diaz-Maurin ◽  
Hilary C. Sun ◽  
Jerold Yu ◽  
Rodney C. Ewing
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Fuel Cycle ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Nuclear Waste Management ◽  
Relative Decline ◽  
Effects Of Radiation ◽  
The Individual

ABSTRACTThe final disposal of nuclear waste is at the interface between the technologies of the nuclear fuel cycle that produce the waste and the natural hydrologic and geochemical cycles of geologic repositories. Despite this broad interdisciplinary scope, nuclear waste management, as practiced, remains “balkanized” among the relevant disciplines. The individual subdisciplines continue to work in relative isolation from one another: materials science dealing with the immobilization of nuclear waste; engineering science dealing with the design, construction and operation of the repository; geoscience dealing with the long-term behavior of host rocks and the hydrology; health science dealing with the effects of radiation; social sciences dealing with the issues of trust, risk and ethics. Understanding how these very different disciplines interact is fundamental to creating and managing a nuclear waste organization. Based on a comprehensive review of the scholarly and scientific literature of waste management, we have analyzed the evolution and structure of research in nuclear waste management between 1979 and 2017. Focusing on materials science, we show that some research themes have been isolated from the most central themes of nuclear waste management. Moreover, we observed a relative decline of the fundamental research in materials science. This decline was evidenced by a drop in the number of articles published in the proceedings of the MRS symposia “Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management” since 2000. We argue for the need to more precisely and inclusively define the field of nuclear waste management.

The Fate of Hazardous Materials in the Biosphere

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary M. Sandquist
Keyword(s):  
Energy Source ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Fuel Cycle ◽  
Hazardous Materials ◽  
Nuclear Fuel Cycle ◽  
Hazardous Wastes ◽  
Radioactive Materials ◽  
Great Capacity ◽  
Stable Elements

Although nuclear power appears to be expanding as a major global energy source, the disposal of radioactive waste from the nuclear fuel cycle still poses formidable challenges to the full expansion of the nuclear enterprise. The perception that nuclear wastes represent unique and insoluble threats to humans is ill founded. The risk from these radioactive materials is comparable and many ways less severe than other more familiar hazardous materials that are ubiquitous in the biosphere. Radioactive materials decay and reduce in time unlike stable elements. Besides the reduction of radioactive materials through decay, the dilution and dispersion of all hazardous materials by natural forces and events provides the reduction required to make adequate and safe disposal of nuclear waste possible. The ultimate sink for essentially all of these hazardous wastes will prove to be the oceans with their great capacity of dilution and containment.

Characterization of Mechanical Properties of Nuclear Waste Glasses

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Richter ◽  
Peter Offermann
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Fuel Cycle ◽  
Nuclear Fuel Cycle ◽  
Safety Barrier

Part of nuclear fuel cycle waste is highly dangerous, and must be safely isolated from people. Although the site of the final waste disposal must be the main safety barrier, the form of the waste and its properties are also important considerations.

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