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In a new report, “What a waste: How fast-fission power can provide clean energy from nuclear waste”, environmental group RePlanet advocates recycling used nuclear fuel as fuel for advanced fast reactors. While Europe's nuclear power reactors "have a long history of safe use, and have provided prodigious quantities of clean electricity for decades", they use less than 1% of the energy potential in the natural uranium used to make their fuel, the report notes. Moreover, irradiated fuel assemblies removed from reactors are considered “nuclear waste”.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 07 April 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsenvironmental-group-urges-use-of-fast-reactors-10738853
Ukrainian utility Energoatom plans to raise loans of $250m from Bank of America and Merrill Lynch as part of the project to create a centralised waste nuclear fuel storage facility, Energoatom President Yuriy Nedashkovsky told a press conference.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 16 November 2015
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsukraine-pushes-ahead-with-fuel-diversification-4720393