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Japan's spent fuel and plutonium management challenge

Katsuta, Tadahiro; Suzuki, Tatsujiro - In: Energy Policy 39 (2011) 11, pp. 6827-6841

Japan's commitment to plutonium recycling has been explicitly stated in its long-term program since 1956. Despite the … active testing in 2006. Japan's cumulative consumption of plutonium has been only 5tons to date and its future consumption …tons of plutonium annually. Our analysis shows that, with optimum use of available at-reactor and away-from-reactor storage …

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Sustainable nuclear energy: some reasons for optimism

Wilson, Richard - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 28 (2007) 2/3, pp. 138-160

This paper traces various aspects of nuclear electrical power from about 1970 when it burst on the world scene, starting in the USA and spreading rapidly to the rest of the world. Taking the US situation as typical, and perhaps dominant, I show that the cost of nuclear electricity was cheap in...

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Sustainability of light water reactor fuel cycles

Rothwell, Geoffrey; Wood, Thomas W.; Daly, Don; Weimar, … - In: Energy Policy 74 (2014) S1, pp. 16-16

-enriched uranium oxide) cycle and the twice-through MOX (Mixed Uranium-Plutonium Oxide) cycle (increasing the input efficiency of …

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