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CCNS will provide CAD1m (€680,000) in funding to help Canada-based Moltex demonstrate the technical viability of a new process to recycle used Candu fuel.
When removed from an operating reactor, used Candu fuel still contains energy in the form of fissionable uranium and plutonium isotopes, which cannot be used without removing fission products. Moltex’s process would recover these energy resources and prepare them for use as new fuel in other advanced reactor designs, potentially reducing the volume of the material requiring long-term storage in a deep geological repository.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 01 April 2021
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/opg-and-moltex-launch-project-to-recycle-used-fuel-from-candu-reactors-3-3-2021
French regulator Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN) has called into question the medium-term safety of the evaporators at Areva's La Hague nuclear fuel processing facility. Measurements of the thickness of evaporators have shown greater levels of corrosion than expected and ASN has instructed Areva to increase its supervision of the units and install isolation facilities and advanced detection systems to limit the consequences of a leak or rupture. The evaporators, commissioned between 1989 and 1994, were designed in the 1980s using a steel selected by Areva for its corrosion resistance and were intended for an operating lifetime of 30 years.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 29 February 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscorrosion-found-at-la-hague-reprocessing-plant-4824807