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Archive: Spent fuel management

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