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Archive: Spent fuel management

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