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Jeff Place on INPO’s strategy for industry growth
As executive vice president for industry strategy at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, Jeff Place leads INPO’s industry-facing work, engaging directly with chief nuclear officers.
Sunanta Patrashakorn, Reiner Papp
Nuclear Technology | Volume 51 | Number 1 | November 1980 | Pages 7-12
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32550
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Coprocessing is conceived as a method in which the plutonium is never available in a separate stream. In addition, it is possible to keep the transuranium actinides with the plutonium and uranium streams rather than allowing them to leave with the fission products and terminate in the high level waste. The recovered actinide product can be reconstructed as a fuel and recycled in light water reactors. But even after nine cycles the fuel composition does not reach equilibrium. Since the plutonium is never separated from other actinides, the potential of proliferation can be reduced.