Archive: Spent fuel management

  1. Rokkasho costs rise again
  2. U.S. promotion of nuclear power during the Biden administration
  3. Civilian plutonium declarations for 2023
  4. United Kingdom plans to immobilize civilian plutonium
  5. China starts construction of a third demonstration reprocessing plant
  6. Russia removed all HEU spent fuel from naval base in Gremikha
  7. Launch of the second reprocessing line in Zheleznogorsk
  8. Update on the US naval spent fuel shipments to Idaho National Lab
  9. 2022 civilian plutonium declarations submitted to the IAEA
  10. Japan's never ending reprocessing saga
  11. Japan's plutonium utilization plan delayed again
  12. 2021 civilian plutonium declarations submitted to the IAEA
  13. US National Academies panel skeptical about US Department of Energy's promotion of spent fuel reprocessing
  14. Troubles with France's plutonium fuel program
  15. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2021
  16. France will accept plutonium from Japan's Fugen reactor
  17. Shipment of MOX fuel from France to Japan
  18. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2020
  19. US DOE and NRC at odds with regard to prospects for commercial reprocessing in the US
  20. China starts construction of a second 200 MT/year reprocessing plant
  21. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2019
  22. Location of China's reprocessing plant
  23. U.S. Department of Energy "exploring" spent fuel reprocessing again
  24. New IPFM report on Britain's Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP)
  25. Shipments of U.S. spent fuel to the Idaho National Laboratory
  26. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2018
  27. U.S. naval spent fuel shipped to the Idaho National Laboratory
  28. New IPFM report on remote detection of undeclared reprocessing
  29. Japan's new policy on its plutonium stockpile
  30. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2017
  31. France and China continue to discuss reprocessing plant
  32. Pilot project to reprocess naval spent fuel at Idaho National Laboratory
  33. Ukraine to explore reprocessing its spent fuel in France
  34. Diverging recommendations on Sweden's spent nuclear fuel repository
  35. Decision time for Sweden's final repository for spent nuclear fuel
  36. Rokkasho plant will not start until 2021
  37. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2016
  38. Unprecedented evidence of eroded safety culture at La Hague plutonium facility
  39. Japan decides to decommission the Monju reactor
  40. Sellafield's Evaporator D Project - A Lesson for La Hague?
  41. Reprocessing plant at Mayak to begin reprocessing of VVER-1000 fuel
  42. A plan to upgrade naval spent fuel handling facility at the Idaho National Laboratory
  43. Future of Japan's Monju plutonium breeder reactor under review
  44. U.S. reprocessing plant at the Savannah River Site resumed operations
  45. French plutonium policy questioned by a former senior EDF official
  46. Russia is expanding its reprocessing program at Mayak
  47. Japan's new law on funding plutonium reprocessing
  48. Experts write to U.S. Secretary of Energy Moniz to support termination of the MOX project
  49. IPFM Report "Alternatives to MOX" in Chinese
  50. IPFM Report "Plutonium Separation in Nuclear Power Programs" in Chinese
  51. Chinese scholars express concern about Japan's fissile materials
  52. Plutonium disposition in the United Kingdom - Immobilization option re-opened?
  53. Areva continues negotiations to build reprocessing plant in China
  54. United States grants advance consents rights to Korea for overseas reprocessing
  55. Advisory group recommends building dry storage facility in South Korea
  56. United Kingdom transfers "breeder material" from Dounreay to Sellafield
  57. U.S. Department of Energy set to restart last remaining U.S. reprocessing plant
  58. Alternatives to MOX: a new report by the International Panel on Fissile Materials
  59. Taiwan spent fuel reprocessing tender process suspended
  60. Taiwan tenders spent fuel reprocessing contract
  61. Ukraine and Holtec sign an updated agreement to build spent fuel storage
  62. Two new reports raise fundamental questions on Savannah River MOX plant
  63. Ukraine begins construction of centralized spent fuel storage
  64. No changes in U.S. civilian plutonium stock in 2013
  65. Russia's 2013 civilian plutonium declaration
  66. UK civilian plutonium and uranium stocks in 2013
  67. China has not separated any plutonium in 2013
  68. French civilian plutonium and HEU in 2013
  69. 1,000 tonnes of THORP contracts abandoned since 1994
  70. MOX fuel in Japan: Summary of shipments, use, and storage
  71. Russia reports its 2012 civilian plutonium stock
  72. Switzerland declares its 2013 plutonium stock
  73. U.S. civilian plutonium holdings in December 2012
  74. Sweden wants to transfer ownership of 834 kg of separated plutonium to the United Kingdom
  75. China calls on Japan to return weapons grade plutonium to the United States
  76. U.K. plutonium re-use policy slammed in House of Commons report
  77. Nuclear train accident in Britain latest of a recent series
  78. United Kingdom remains undecided on plutonium reuse options
  79. Rokkasho reprocessing plant expects to begin operations in October 2014
  80. Areva to produce MOX fuel for the Netherlands
  81. Japan reports its 2012 plutonium stock to IAEA
  82. China's 2012 civilian plutonium declaration
  83. Japan's 2012 plutonium management report
  84. France declares its 2012 stocks of civilian plutonium and HEU
  85. Roadmap for ending plutonium separation in Japan
  86. Lessons learned from Sellafield MOX Plant
  87. Switzerland's 2012 plutonium holdings
  88. Areva to build reprocessing plant in China
  89. Dutch spent fuel arrived for reprocessing at La Hague
  90. U.S. Department of Energy sets strategy for dealing with spent fuel
  91. Russia declares its 2011 civilian plutonium holdings
  92. United States declares its 2011 non-military plutonium stock
  93. India plans to increase reprocessing capacity
  94. UK civilian plutonium and HEU stocks in 2011
  95. French civilian plutonium and HEU stocks in 2011