Archive: Spent fuel management

1. May 13, 2026 China has started operation of its demonstration reprocessing plant
2. December 18, 2025 A step toward the disposition of UK civilian plutonium
3. August 28, 2025 United Kingdom allocates £154 million to prepare for plutonium disposal
4. August 21, 2025 Spent fuel reprocessing at Mayak in 2024
5. August 18, 2025 UK calls the plan to build nuclear waste storage facility "unachievable"
6. June 23, 2025 Rokkasho costs rise again
7. March 19, 2025 U.S. promotion of nuclear power during the Biden administration
8. March 7, 2025 Civilian plutonium declarations for 2023
9. January 25, 2025 United Kingdom plans to immobilize civilian plutonium
10. January 1, 2025 Spent fuel reprocessing in Russia in 2016-2024
11. December 24, 2024 China starts construction of a third demonstration reprocessing plant
12. December 2, 2024 Russia removed all HEU spent fuel from naval base in Gremikha
13. November 18, 2024 Second reprocessing line in Zheleznogorsk
14. July 19, 2024 Update on the US naval spent fuel shipments to Idaho National Lab
15. March 25, 2024 2022 civilian plutonium declarations submitted to the IAEA
16. November 23, 2023 Japan's never ending reprocessing saga
17. March 19, 2023 Japan's plutonium utilization plan delayed again
18. January 27, 2023 2021 civilian plutonium declarations submitted to the IAEA
19. December 2, 2022 US National Academies panel skeptical about US Department of Energy's promotion of spent fuel reprocessing
20. August 28, 2022 Troubles with France's plutonium fuel program
21. July 12, 2022 Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2021
22. June 21, 2022 France will accept plutonium from Japan's Fugen reactor
23. November 17, 2021 Shipment of MOX fuel from France to Japan
24. July 9, 2021 Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2020
25. July 7, 2021 US DOE and NRC at odds with regard to prospects for commercial reprocessing in the US
26. March 21, 2021 China starts construction of a second 200 MT/year reprocessing plant
27. August 21, 2020 Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2019
28. May 11, 2020 Location of China's reprocessing plant
29. February 5, 2020 U.S. Department of Energy "exploring" spent fuel reprocessing again
30. December 23, 2019 New IPFM report on Britain's Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP)
31. October 14, 2019 Shipments of U.S. spent fuel to the Idaho National Laboratory
32. July 30, 2019 Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2018
33. December 11, 2018 U.S. naval spent fuel shipped to the Idaho National Laboratory
34. October 21, 2018 New IPFM report on remote detection of undeclared reprocessing
35. August 20, 2018 Japan's new policy on its plutonium stockpile
36. July 31, 2018 Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2017
37. June 25, 2018 France and China continue to discuss reprocessing plant
38. June 24, 2018 Pilot project to reprocess naval spent fuel at Idaho National Laboratory
39. May 3, 2018 Ukraine to explore reprocessing its spent fuel in France
40. January 23, 2018 Diverging recommendations on Sweden's spent nuclear fuel repository
41. January 8, 2018 Decision time for Sweden's final repository for spent nuclear fuel
42. December 22, 2017 Rokkasho plant will not start until 2021
43. August 2, 2017 Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2016
44. March 24, 2017 Unprecedented evidence of eroded safety culture at La Hague plutonium facility
45. December 21, 2016 Japan decides to decommission the Monju reactor
46. December 19, 2016 Sellafield's Evaporator D Project - A Lesson for La Hague?
47. December 19, 2016 Reprocessing plant at Mayak to begin reprocessing of VVER-1000 fuel
48. October 8, 2016 A plan to upgrade naval spent fuel handling facility at the Idaho National Laboratory
49. September 1, 2016 Future of Japan's Monju plutonium breeder reactor under review
50. August 26, 2016 U.S. reprocessing plant at the Savannah River Site resumed operations
51. June 22, 2016 French plutonium policy questioned by a former senior EDF official
52. June 9, 2016 Russia is expanding its reprocessing program at Mayak
53. May 26, 2016 Japan's new law on funding plutonium reprocessing
54. February 25, 2016 Experts write to U.S. Secretary of Energy Moniz to support termination of the MOX project
55. December 21, 2015 IPFM Report "Alternatives to MOX" in Chinese
56. December 21, 2015 IPFM Report "Plutonium Separation in Nuclear Power Programs" in Chinese
57. October 29, 2015 Chinese scholars express concern about Japan's fissile materials
58. June 30, 2015 Plutonium disposition in the United Kingdom - Immobilization option re-opened?
59. June 30, 2015 Areva continues negotiations to build reprocessing plant in China
60. June 25, 2015 United States grants advance consents rights to Korea for overseas reprocessing
61. June 15, 2015 Advisory group recommends building dry storage facility in South Korea
62. June 1, 2015 United Kingdom transfers "breeder material" from Dounreay to Sellafield
63. April 30, 2015 U.S. Department of Energy set to restart last remaining U.S. reprocessing plant
64. April 13, 2015 Alternatives to MOX: a new report by the International Panel on Fissile Materials
65. March 20, 2015 Taiwan spent fuel reprocessing tender process suspended
66. March 18, 2015 Taiwan tenders spent fuel reprocessing contract
67. January 26, 2015 Ukraine and Holtec sign an updated agreement to build spent fuel storage
68. January 17, 2015 Two new reports raise fundamental questions on Savannah River MOX plant
69. October 21, 2014 Ukraine begins construction of centralized spent fuel storage
70. October 8, 2014 No changes in U.S. civilian plutonium stock in 2013
71. October 8, 2014 Russia's 2013 civilian plutonium declaration
72. August 15, 2014 UK civilian plutonium and uranium stocks in 2013
73. August 15, 2014 China has not separated any plutonium in 2013
74. August 15, 2014 French civilian plutonium and HEU in 2013
75. August 6, 2014 1,000 tonnes of THORP contracts abandoned since 1994
76. June 10, 2014 MOX fuel in Japan: Summary of shipments, use, and storage
77. May 25, 2014 Russia reports its 2012 civilian plutonium stock
78. April 16, 2014 Switzerland declares its 2013 plutonium stock
79. April 2, 2014 U.S. civilian plutonium holdings in December 2012
80. March 18, 2014 Sweden wants to transfer ownership of 834 kg of separated plutonium to the United Kingdom
81. February 18, 2014 China calls on Japan to return weapons grade plutonium to the United States
82. February 16, 2014 U.K. plutonium re-use policy slammed in House of Commons report
83. January 21, 2014 Nuclear train accident in Britain latest of a recent series
84. January 20, 2014 United Kingdom remains undecided on plutonium reuse options
85. January 7, 2014 Rokkasho reprocessing plant expects to begin operations in October 2014
86. November 4, 2013 Areva to produce MOX fuel for the Netherlands
87. October 7, 2013 Japan reports its 2012 plutonium stock to IAEA
88. October 7, 2013 China's 2012 civilian plutonium declaration
89. September 17, 2013 Japan's 2012 plutonium management report
90. September 11, 2013 France declares its 2012 stocks of civilian plutonium and HEU
91. August 29, 2013 Roadmap for ending plutonium separation in Japan
92. June 20, 2013 Lessons learned from Sellafield MOX Plant
93. June 3, 2013 Switzerland's 2012 plutonium holdings
94. April 26, 2013 Areva to build reprocessing plant in China
95. March 20, 2013 Dutch spent fuel arrived for reprocessing at La Hague
96. January 14, 2013 U.S. Department of Energy sets strategy for dealing with spent fuel
97. November 23, 2012 Russia declares its 2011 civilian plutonium holdings
98. October 30, 2012 United States declares its 2011 non-military plutonium stock
99. October 29, 2012 India plans to increase reprocessing capacity
100. August 9, 2012 UK civilian plutonium and HEU stocks in 2011
101. August 9, 2012 French civilian plutonium and HEU stocks in 2011