French reactor using full core of recycled uranium fuel
2024年10月4日 · Unit 2 of the Cruas-Meysse nuclear power plant in south-eastern France was recently restarted with its first full core of recycled uranium fuel. The move marks a major milestone in France's efforts to revive its domestic uranium reprocessing industry.
Nuclear fuel recycling could offer plentiful energy
2012年6月22日 · Recycling used nuclear fuel could produce hundreds of years of energy from just the uranium we’ve already mined, all of it carbon-free.
Recycling Gives New Purpose to Spent Nuclear Fuel
2021年5月14日 · Spent nuclear fuel is being recycled to make new fuel through rapid separation and tight control of uranium and plutonium.
Nuclear reprocessing - Wikipedia
Not all nuclear fuel requires reprocessing; a breeder reactor is not restricted to using recycled plutonium and uranium. It can employ all the actinides , closing the nuclear fuel cycle and potentially multiplying the energy extracted from natural uranium by about 60 times.
Understanding nuclear fuel recycling | Orano
Thanks to Orano's world-leading industrial-scale technologies, almost 96% of the spent fuel used in nuclear reactors for power generation or research purposes can be recycled. Nuclear material is recoverable to make new fuels that will in turn generate their own electricity.
Spent Nuclear Fuel from this Retired Government Reactor is ...
2023年8月31日 · The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is currently working to recycle EBR-II spent fuel as part of a larger effort to make high-assay low-enriched uranium, commonly referred to as HALEU, more accessible to reactor developers to test and demonstrate their designs.
Recovery and recycling of nuclear fuels | Orano - orano.group
By recovering the 96% of re-useable materials (95% uranium and 1% plutonium) in used fuel, Orano can recycle the material and manufacture new fuel, such as mixed oxide fuel (MOX), for nuclear reactors. Two sites address the used fuel processing and recycling needs of …