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Archive: Spent fuel management

  1. Japan's plutonium utilization plan delayed again
  2. 2021 civilian plutonium declarations submitted to the IAEA
  3. US National Academies panel skeptical about US Department of Energy's promotion of spent fuel reprocessing
  4. Troubles with France's plutonium fuel program
  5. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2021
  6. France will accept plutonium from Japan's Fugen reactor
  7. Shipment of MOX fuel from France to Japan
  8. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2020
  9. US DOE and NRC at odds with regard to prospects for commercial reprocessing in the US
  10. China starts construction of a second 200 MT/year reprocessing plant
  11. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2019
  12. Location of China's reprocessing plant
  13. U.S. Department of Energy "exploring" spent fuel reprocessing again
  14. New IPFM report on Britain's Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP)
  15. Shipments of U.S. spent fuel to the Idaho National Laboratory
  16. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2018
  17. U.S. naval spent fuel shipped to the Idaho National Laboratory
  18. New IPFM report on remote detection of undeclared reprocessing
  19. Japan's new policy on its plutonium stockpile
  20. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2017
  21. France and China continue to discuss reprocessing plant
  22. Pilot project to reprocess naval spent fuel at Idaho National Laboratory
  23. Ukraine to explore reprocessing its spent fuel in France
  24. Diverging recommendations on Sweden's spent nuclear fuel repository
  25. Decision time for Sweden's final repository for spent nuclear fuel
  26. Rokkasho plant will not start until 2021
  27. Status of plutonium management in Japan in 2016
  28. Unprecedented evidence of eroded safety culture at La Hague plutonium facility
  29. Japan decides to decommission the Monju reactor
  30. Sellafield's Evaporator D Project - A Lesson for La Hague?
  31. Reprocessing plant at Mayak to begin reprocessing of VVER-1000 fuel
  32. A plan to upgrade naval spent fuel handling facility at the Idaho National Laboratory
  33. Future of Japan's Monju plutonium breeder reactor under review
  34. U.S. reprocessing plant at the Savannah River Site resumed operations
  35. French plutonium policy questioned by a former senior EDF official
  36. Russia is expanding its reprocessing program at Mayak
  37. Japan's new law on funding plutonium reprocessing
  38. Experts write to U.S. Secretary of Energy Moniz to support termination of the MOX project
  39. IPFM Report "Alternatives to MOX" in Chinese
  40. IPFM Report "Plutonium Separation in Nuclear Power Programs" in Chinese
  41. Chinese scholars express concern about Japan's fissile materials
  42. Plutonium disposition in the United Kingdom - Immobilization option re-opened?
  43. Areva continues negotiations to build reprocessing plant in China
  44. United States grants advance consents rights to Korea for overseas reprocessing
  45. Advisory group recommends building dry storage facility in South Korea
  46. United Kingdom transfers "breeder material" from Dounreay to Sellafield
  47. U.S. Department of Energy set to restart last remaining U.S. reprocessing plant
  48. Alternatives to MOX: a new report by the International Panel on Fissile Materials
  49. Taiwan spent fuel reprocessing tender process suspended
  50. Taiwan tenders spent fuel reprocessing contract
  51. Ukraine and Holtec sign an updated agreement to build spent fuel storage
  52. Two new reports raise fundamental questions on Savannah River MOX plant
  53. Ukraine begins construction of centralized spent fuel storage
  54. No changes in U.S. civilian plutonium stock in 2013
  55. Russia's 2013 civilian plutonium declaration
  56. UK civilian plutonium and uranium stocks in 2013
  57. China has not separated any plutonium in 2013
  58. French civilian plutonium and HEU in 2013
  59. 1,000 tonnes of THORP contracts abandoned since 1994
  60. MOX fuel in Japan: Summary of shipments, use, and storage
  61. Russia reports its 2012 civilian plutonium stock
  62. Switzerland declares its 2013 plutonium stock
  63. U.S. civilian plutonium holdings in December 2012
  64. Sweden wants to transfer ownership of 834 kg of separated plutonium to the United Kingdom
  65. China calls on Japan to return weapons grade plutonium to the United States
  66. U.K. plutonium re-use policy slammed in House of Commons report
  67. Nuclear train accident in Britain latest of a recent series
  68. United Kingdom remains undecided on plutonium reuse options
  69. Rokkasho reprocessing plant expects to begin operations in October 2014
  70. Areva to produce MOX fuel for the Netherlands
  71. Japan reports its 2012 plutonium stock to IAEA
  72. China's 2012 civilian plutonium declaration
  73. Japan's 2012 plutonium management report
  74. France declares its 2012 stocks of civilian plutonium and HEU
  75. Roadmap for ending plutonium separation in Japan
  76. Lessons learned from Sellafield MOX Plant
  77. Switzerland's 2012 plutonium holdings
  78. Areva to build reprocessing plant in China
  79. Dutch spent fuel arrived for reprocessing at La Hague
  80. U.S. Department of Energy sets strategy for dealing with spent fuel
  81. Russia declares its 2011 civilian plutonium holdings
  82. United States declares its 2011 non-military plutonium stock
  83. India plans to increase reprocessing capacity
  84. UK civilian plutonium and HEU stocks in 2011
  85. French civilian plutonium and HEU stocks in 2011