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Archive: Spent fuel management

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