Management of Recyclable Fissile and Fertile Materials

Abstract

The OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 30 democracies work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy and the challenges of an ageing population. The Organisation provides a setting where governments can compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and work to coordinate domestic and international policies.

On the possibility to improve mixed uranium-plutonium fuel in fast reactors

“…Sodium cooled fast power reactors are currently operating only in Russia. These are the BN-600 and BN-800 reactors (Matveev et al 2012, Bagdasarov et al 2001, Textbook 2012, Seleznev 2013. Use of MOX fuel in these reactors has been justified, and representative experimental batches of such fuel (over 30 pelletized fuel assemblies (FAs) and as many vibrocompacted FAs) have been irradiated in BN-600.…”