Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Environmental Impact

Safeguarding the Military Naval Nuclear Fuel Cycle

In the safeguards agreements between non-nuclear-weaponstate members of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency, there is a possibility for non-nuclear weapon states, acting with the approval of the agency’s board of governors, to remove from safeguards nuclear materials to be used in non-proscribed military activities such as naval nuclear propulsion. Thi...

Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

The debate over the past five years on how to limit national ownership and control of nuclear fuel-cycle facilities is largely a response to the perceived risk of a growing number of countries to acquire these sensitive technologies. This prospect is seen as a challenge to the nonproliferation regime by leading nuclear weapon states and their allies, by non-weapon states seeking both to stem pr...

Sustainability Features of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Options

The nuclear fuel cycle is the series of stages that nuclear fuel materials go through in a cradle to grave framework. The Once Through Cycle (OTC) is the current fuel cycle implemented in the United States; in which an appropriate form of the fuel is irradiated through a nuclear reactor only once before it is disposed of as waste. The discharged fuel contains materials that can be suitable for ...

Environmental Effects of Nuclear Fuel Reprocesing

Design of Remote Simulator for a Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facility

The goal of this study is to provide the basic technology for an operability of a remote manipulation of an advanced spent fuel conditioning process facility. The operability and maintainability of a manipulator in a hotcell which deals with nuclear materials is one of the most important issues that should be solved in the nuclear industry. Here, we describe the design of a graphic user interfa...