Using low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel ... where it can be reprocessed. Rosatom is also considering constructing four floating nuclear power plants with capacities of 100 MWe and a lifetime ...

Japan's Federation of Electric Power Companies has announced that a total of 400 tonnes of used nuclear fuel, instead of the ...

Most new nuclear ... MWe) reactor. Render of the demonstration TerraPower Natrium plant. (Source: TerraPower) As mentioned in the introduction, the Natrium reactor can use not just U-235 as its fuel.

Sweden has broken ground on its final repository for spent nuclear fuel (SNF)—a milestone reached ... each with a capacity of 1,250 MWe. Beyond this, the government aims to deploy the equivalent ...

The Russian floating nuclear power station ... Receipt of fresh uranium fuel is done in special containers by Pevek, while the spent fuel is stored in the vessel so that it will be taken back to ...

Managing the spent fuel arising from nuclear power plants until its disposal is an important step of the nuclear fuel cycle and constitutes the so-called back-end. While one third of the spent fuel ...

With help from the fast reactor, spent fuel from the thermal reactors will be reprocessed and reused, with a final waste footprint up to ten times smaller than that of regular nuclear fuel. India is ...

France-based Newcleo has signed framework agreements with Slovakian companies JAVYS and VUJE which could lead to up to four of its 200 MWe lead-cooled fast reactors ... It will also aim to develop a ...