advanced fuel cycle

Program on Technology Innovation: Advanced Fuel Cycles—Impact on High-Level Waste Disposal: Analysis of Deployment Scenarios of Fast Burner Reactors in the U.S. Nuclear Fleet

This report presents the results of a dynamic simulation analysis for deployment of advanced light water reactors (LWRs) and fast burner reactors, as proposed by the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) program. Conditions for the analysis were selected for their potential to challenge the nuclear fuel simulation codes that were used, due to the large variations in nuclear fuel composition for the burner reactors before equilibrium conditions are approached. The analysis was performed in a U.S.

Nuclear Energy R&D Infrastructure Report for The Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future

Over the past few years a number of important studies have been executed to identify and define the necessary nuclear energy research, development and demonstration (RD&D) infrastructure that must be sustained or developed.

GLOBAL NUCLEAR ENERGY PARTNERSHIP: YUCCA MOUNTAIN’S SAVIOR OR SAVANNAH RIVER’S FOE?

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The United States Department of Energy (DOE) touts the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) as an environmentally friendly approach to provide virtually limitless energy to emerging economies around the world while reducing the risk of nuclear proliferation. DOE plans to reduce the amount of high-level radioactive waste for disposal in a national repository and reduce nuclear proliferation risks by recycling and converting fissionable materials into safer isotopes.

Closing the US Fuel Cycle: Siting Considerations for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Facilities-Siting the Advanced Fuel Cycle Facility

Read more about Closing the US Fuel Cycle: Siting Considerations for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Facilities-Siting the Advanced Fuel Cycle Facility

The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), launched in February, 2006, proposes to introduce used nuclear fuel recycling in the United States (U.S.) with improved proliferation-resistance and a more effective waste management approach. This program is evaluating ways to close the fuel cycle in a manner that introduces the most advanced technologies of today and builds on recent breakthroughs in U.S. national laboratories while drawing on international and industry partnerships.

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