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Archive: Spent fuel management

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