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Archive: Spent fuel management

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