Explore: Environmental Aspects Of Reactor Fuel Reprocessing

of mixed oxide fuel (MOX) for thermal reactors. Reprocessing ceased on 17 July 2022, when the Magnox Reprocessing Plant completed its last batch of fuel

initial first few hundred years.[citation needed] Reprocessing of civilian fuel from power reactors is currently done in France, the United Kingdom, Russia

as they age. The design of the fuel makes fuel reprocessing expensive. The small, sealed, transportable, autonomous reactor (SSTAR) is being primarily

fuel it breeds in situ, without requiring its removal from the reactor core or further reprocessing. Some SMR designs are based on the thorium fuel cycle

investigation was complete, the reactor fuel was sent to the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant for reprocessing. The reactor core minus the fuel, along with the other

irradiation of PFBR type fuel assembly in FBTR. Thoria fuel bundles irradiated in PHWRs will be reprocessed in Power Reactor Thorium Reprocessing Facility

liquid fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR; often pronounced lifter) is a type of molten salt reactor. LFTRs use the thorium fuel cycle with a fluoride-based

addressing some of the issues inherent to the current life cycle of nuclear reactor fuel in the United States. These efforts strive to make nuclear energy's

molten-salt reactor (MSR) is a class of nuclear fission reactor in which the primary nuclear reactor coolant and/or the fuel is a mixture of molten salt

oxide fuel from United Kingdom reactors be reprocessed in this country at all; whether at Windscale or elsewhere? If yes, should such reprocessing be carried