Given current energy projections, it is likely that interest in nuclear energy will grow, resulting in more fuel passing through the back end of the fuel cycle. To minimize the time, risk and ...

the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM 2024), summarized the key factors that influence the amount and type of waste generated from a nuclear reactor, including: fuel type, fuel ...

Managing the spent fuel arising from nuclear power plants until its disposal is an important step of the nuclear fuel cycle and constitutes the so-called back-end. While one third of the spent fuel ...

B. Fuel Regeneration Options to Support an International Nuclear Fuel Cycle.Primary Issues:1. Compare the uranium recovery by extraction plus (UREX+), the plutonium and uranium recovery by extraction ...

I bear witness to the desperate need for sincere investment in policy and technology at the filthy nuclear front end,” she ...

The discovery of nuclear ... fuel to create (MOX) fuel for slow-neutron reactors, allowing not 1% but up to 60% of the energy in uranium to be used in a once-through cycle. This is not the end ...

Core Power has roped in naval architecture and marine engineering firm Glosten to help design a floating nuclear power plant ...

Two much-watched advanced nuclear fuel technology companies—Oklo and Lightbridge—will consider co-locating their commercial ...