Although the recycling of plutonium as thermal mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel in pressurised water reactors (PWRs) is now well … plutonium can effectively be recycled in a PWR. This report describes in particular an exercise based on a realistic, multiple …-recycle scenario, which followed plutonium through five generations of recycling in a PWR. It considered both a standard PWR design …

The OECD/NEA Working Party on the Physics of Plutonium Fuels and Innovative Fuel Cycles (WPPR) conducted a physics code … benchmark test for the recycling of plutonium as PuO2/UO2 mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel in boiling water reactors (BWRs) compared to …

terms of uranium resource availability, fuel cycle facility deployment and reactor types. In particular, the need to achieve … uranium resource availability and different types of reactors to be deployed. …

Since the beginning of the nuclear era, significant scientific attention has been given to thorium’s potential as a … nuclear fuel. Although the thorium fuel cycle has never been fully developed, the opportunities and challenges that might … arise from the use of thorium in the nuclear fuel cycle are still being studied in many countries and in the context of …