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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Charles W. Forsberg, Edward C. Beahm
Nuclear Technology | Volume 123 | Number 3 | September 1998 | Pages 341-349
Technical Note | Reprocessing | doi.org/10.13182/NT98-A2904
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A new process has been invented that converts complex wastes containing fissile materials into a chemical form that allows the use of existing technologies (such as Purex and ion exchange) to recover the fissile materials and convert the resultant wastes to glass. Potential feed materials include (a) uranium fissile wastes, (b) miscellaneous spent nuclear fuel, and (c) plutonium scrap and residue. The initial feed materials may contain mixtures of metals, ceramics, amorphous solids, halides, and organics.The process consists of three major sets of process operations. During the first set of operations, the feed is dissolved into molten lead-borate glass and then converted to a boron oxide (B2O3) fusion melt. During this process, (a) the organics and metals are oxidized and (b) the halides and noble metals are separated from the melt. During the second set of operations, the cooled fusion melt is dissolved into nitric acid, and the uranium and plutonium are recovered from the acid using standard aqueous separation processes such as Purex and ion exchange. During the third set of operations, standard waste vitrification processes convert the residual waste to borosilicate glass. The B2O3 can be recovered and recycled at several locations within the process.
