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Archive: Spent fuel management

  1. China has started operation of its demonstration reprocessing plant
  2. US Department of Energy supports private companies' work on reprocessing
  3. A step toward the disposition of UK civilian plutonium
  4. United Kingdom allocates £154 million to prepare for plutonium disposal
  5. Spent fuel reprocessing at Mayak in 2024
  6. UK calls the plan to build nuclear waste storage facility "unachievable"
  7. Rokkasho costs rise again
  8. U.S. promotion of nuclear power during the Biden administration
  9. Civilian plutonium declarations for 2023
  10. United Kingdom plans to immobilize civilian plutonium
  11. Spent fuel reprocessing in Russia in 2016-2024
  12. China starts construction of a third demonstration reprocessing plant
  13. Russia removed all HEU spent fuel from naval base in Gremikha
  14. Second reprocessing line in Zheleznogorsk
  15. Update on the US naval spent fuel shipments to Idaho National Lab
  16. 2022 civilian plutonium declarations submitted to the IAEA
  17. Japan's never ending reprocessing saga
  18. Japan's plutonium utilization plan delayed again
  19. 2021 civilian plutonium declarations submitted to the IAEA
  20. US National Academies panel skeptical about US Department of Energy's promotion of spent fuel reprocessing
  21. Troubles with France's plutonium fuel program
  22. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2021
  23. France will accept plutonium from Japan's Fugen reactor
  24. Shipment of MOX fuel from France to Japan
  25. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2020
  26. US DOE and NRC at odds with regard to prospects for commercial reprocessing in the US
  27. China starts construction of a second 200 MT/year reprocessing plant
  28. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2019
  29. Location of China's reprocessing plant
  30. U.S. Department of Energy "exploring" spent fuel reprocessing again
  31. New IPFM report on Britain's Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP)
  32. Shipments of U.S. spent fuel to the Idaho National Laboratory
  33. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2018
  34. U.S. naval spent fuel shipped to the Idaho National Laboratory
  35. New IPFM report on remote detection of undeclared reprocessing
  36. Japan's new policy on its plutonium stockpile
  37. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2017
  38. France and China continue to discuss reprocessing plant
  39. Pilot project to reprocess naval spent fuel at Idaho National Laboratory
  40. Ukraine to explore reprocessing its spent fuel in France
  41. Diverging recommendations on Sweden's spent nuclear fuel repository
  42. Decision time for Sweden's final repository for spent nuclear fuel
  43. Rokkasho plant will not start until 2021
  44. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2016
  45. Unprecedented evidence of eroded safety culture at La Hague plutonium facility
  46. Japan decides to decommission the Monju reactor
  47. Sellafield's Evaporator D Project - A Lesson for La Hague?
  48. Reprocessing plant at Mayak to begin reprocessing of VVER-1000 fuel
  49. A plan to upgrade naval spent fuel handling facility at the Idaho National Laboratory
  50. Future of Japan's Monju plutonium breeder reactor under review
  51. U.S. reprocessing plant at the Savannah River Site resumed operations
  52. French plutonium policy questioned by a former senior EDF official
  53. Russia is expanding its reprocessing program at Mayak
  54. Japan's new law on funding plutonium reprocessing
  55. Experts write to U.S. Secretary of Energy Moniz to support termination of the MOX project
  56. IPFM Report "Alternatives to MOX" in Chinese
  57. IPFM Report "Plutonium Separation in Nuclear Power Programs" in Chinese
  58. Chinese scholars express concern about Japan's fissile materials
  59. Plutonium disposition in the United Kingdom - Immobilization option re-opened?
  60. Areva continues negotiations to build reprocessing plant in China
  61. United States grants advance consents rights to Korea for overseas reprocessing
  62. Advisory group recommends building dry storage facility in South Korea
  63. United Kingdom transfers "breeder material" from Dounreay to Sellafield
  64. U.S. Department of Energy set to restart last remaining U.S. reprocessing plant
  65. Alternatives to MOX: a new report by the International Panel on Fissile Materials
  66. Taiwan spent fuel reprocessing tender process suspended
  67. Taiwan tenders spent fuel reprocessing contract
  68. Ukraine and Holtec sign an updated agreement to build spent fuel storage
  69. Two new reports raise fundamental questions on Savannah River MOX plant
  70. Ukraine begins construction of centralized spent fuel storage
  71. No changes in U.S. civilian plutonium stock in 2013
  72. Russia's 2013 civilian plutonium declaration
  73. UK civilian plutonium and uranium stocks in 2013
  74. China has not separated any plutonium in 2013
  75. French civilian plutonium and HEU in 2013
  76. 1,000 tonnes of THORP contracts abandoned since 1994
  77. MOX fuel in Japan: Summary of shipments, use, and storage
  78. Russia reports its 2012 civilian plutonium stock
  79. Switzerland declares its 2013 plutonium stock
  80. U.S. civilian plutonium holdings in December 2012
  81. Sweden wants to transfer ownership of 834 kg of separated plutonium to the United Kingdom
  82. China calls on Japan to return weapons grade plutonium to the United States
  83. U.K. plutonium re-use policy slammed in House of Commons report
  84. Nuclear train accident in Britain latest of a recent series
  85. United Kingdom remains undecided on plutonium reuse options
  86. Rokkasho reprocessing plant expects to begin operations in October 2014
  87. Areva to produce MOX fuel for the Netherlands
  88. Japan reports its 2012 plutonium stock to IAEA
  89. China's 2012 civilian plutonium declaration
  90. Japan's 2012 plutonium management report
  91. France declares its 2012 stocks of civilian plutonium and HEU
  92. Roadmap for ending plutonium separation in Japan
  93. Lessons learned from Sellafield MOX Plant
  94. Switzerland's 2012 plutonium holdings
  95. Areva to build reprocessing plant in China
  96. Dutch spent fuel arrived for reprocessing at La Hague
  97. U.S. Department of Energy sets strategy for dealing with spent fuel
  98. Russia declares its 2011 civilian plutonium holdings
  99. United States declares its 2011 non-military plutonium stock
  100. India plans to increase reprocessing capacity
  101. UK civilian plutonium and HEU stocks in 2011
  102. French civilian plutonium and HEU stocks in 2011