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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.
Tadafumi Koyama, Reiko Fujita, Masatoshi Hzuka, Yukio Sumida
Nuclear Technology | Volume 110 | Number 3 | June 1995 | Pages 357-368
Technical Paper | Actinide Burning and Transmutation Special / Enrichment and Reprocessing System | doi.org/10.13182/NT95-A35107
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A new electrorefiner with a ceramic partition has been developed for pyrometallurgical reprocessing of metallic fuel. In this electrorefiner, dissolution of spent fuel and deposition take place simultaneously, resulting in an increase of the processing rate. The feasibility of this electrorefiner was confirmed by a polarization profile and a current efficiency of an electrotransportation of uranium from a pure uranium anode to an iron cathode through a liquid cadmium pool. Separation of active fission products from actinide was confirmed by a transportation of simulating fission product elements with and without imposing electropotential. The maximum cathode current density onto a liquid cadmium pool without formation of a dendrite was measured against the concentration, and it was found to decrease with increasing concentration of uranium in cadmium. The estimated time required to process 50 kg of heavy metal by the new electrorefiner was less than that of the original electrorefiner.
