Nuclear reprocessing

The COGEMA La Hague site is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in La Hague on the French Cotentin Peninsula that currently has over half of the world's light water reactor spent nuclear fuel reprocessing capacity. It has been in operation since 1976, and has a capacity of about 1700 tonnes per year. ...more on Wikipedia about "COGEMA La Hague site"

This is a method for the removal of elements, which form volatile fluorides, from fused molten fluoride salts. It principle of operation is the chemical oxidation of the elements in the spent fuel by atomic fluorine, which then escape. It is being studied for reprocessing of nuclear fuel. This process is oftein described as Fluoride volatility. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fluoride volatility"

Mayak is the name of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant between the towns of Kasli and Kyshtym (also transliterated Kishtym or Kishtim) 150 km northwest of Chelyabinsk in Russia. The plant is in the Ozersk central administrative territorial unit, formerly known as Chelyabinsk-40, later as Chelyabinsk-65, and part of the Chelyabinsk Oblast. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mayak"

Mixed oxide, or MOX fuel, is a blend of plutonium and natural uranium or depleted uranium which behaves similarly (though not identically) to the enriched uranium feed for which most nuclear reactors were designed. MOX fuel is an alternative to Low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel used in the light water reactors which predominate nuclear power generation. MOX also provides a means of burning weapons-grade plutonium (from military sources) to produce electricity. ...more on Wikipedia about "MOX fuel"

Nuclear fuel is any material that can be consumed to derive nuclear energy, by analogy to chemical fuel that is burned to derive energy. By far the most common type of nuclear fuel is heavy fissile elements that can be made to undergo nuclear fission chain reactions in a nuclear fission reactor; nuclear fuel can refer to the material or to physical objects (for example fuel bundles composed of fuel rods) composed of the fuel material, perhaps mixed with structural, neutron moderating, or neutron reflecting materials. The most common fissile nuclear fuels are 235U and 239Pu, and the actions of mining, refining, purifying, using, and ultimately disposing of these elements together make up the nuclear fuel cycle, which is important for its relevance to nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nuclear fuel"

The nuclear fuel cycle consists of front end steps that lead to the preparation of uranium for use as fuel for reactor operation and back end steps that are necessary to safely manage, prepare, and dispose of radioactive waste. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nuclear fuel cycle"

Nuclear reprocessing separates any usable elements (e.g., uranium and plutonium) from fission products and other materials in used nuclear reactor fuels. Usually the goal is to place these elements in new mixed oxide fuel (MOX), but some reprocessing is done to obtain plutonium for weapons. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nuclear reprocessing"

THORP, or Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant, is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at Sellafield in Cumbria, England, operated by the British Nuclear Group, a subsidiary of BNFL. It processes spent nuclear fuel from nuclear reactors and separates the uranium and plutonium, which can be reused in mixed oxide fuel, from the radioactive wastes, which are treated and stored at the plant. Construction of THORP started in the 1970s, and was completed in 1994. The plant went into operation in August 1997. ...more on Wikipedia about "Thorp nuclear fuel reprocessing plant"

Tōkai (東海村; -mura) is a village located in Naka District, Ibaraki, Japan. It is approximately 120 km north of Tokyo, Japan on the Pacific coast. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tokai, Ibaraki"

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