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...eactor Fast neutron reactors] Wikipedia</ref> are capable of burning spent nuclear fuel, old bomb cores, depleted uranium and thorium.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com Normal reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel from standard water moderated reactors involves separation of fissile mater

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Civilian applications include cladding of nuclear fuel elements for nuclear reactors cores. [[Cubic zirconia]] is a form of high-q

...e propulsion]], or heating industrial plants or other facilities; breeding nuclear fuel; the preparation of [[radioactivity|radioactive]] [[isotope]]s for use in [ ...aterial that can be bred into such fissile isotopes may also be considered nuclear fuel. For example, uranium-238 (²³⁸U or U-238) can be bred to produc

**Dan Yurman (2022) Stanford's Questionable Study on Spent Nuclear Fuel for SMRs, [https://neutronbytes.com/2022/05/31/stanfords-questionable-study ...Fuel Cycles'', [https://www.doi.org/10.5772/17822 DOI:10.5772/17822] How nuclear fuel can be made useless for bombs by denaturing (diluting fissile isotopes with

...uclear-power]]ed Navy [[warship]]s, which involves replacement of expended nuclear fuel with new fuel and a general maintenance fix-up, renovation, and often moder ...nuclear fuel. Because it is so radioactive, removing a core with expended nuclear fuel from a reactor requires elaborate radiological handling precautions. The i

Heavy water reactors, such as [[CANDU]], can operate with low-enriched nuclear fuel, which is advantageous for nonproliferation. Heavy water is also used in r

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...on products are contained in the rod. This means a smaller volume of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF). Rods are easy to identify and count, which may be advantageous in pr ...flows for reactors of various types, we need to distinguish between Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) that goes to [[Nuclear_waste_management|Interim Storage]] and High Le

...14, ''Isotopic Uranium and Plutonium Denaturing as an Effective Method for Nuclear Fuel Proliferation Protection'' <ref name=Kryuchkov/> in the book ''Nuclear Powe ...11) ''Isotopic Uranium and Plutonium Denaturing as an Effective Method for Nuclear Fuel Proliferation Protection'' https://www.doi.org/10.5772/17822 Chapter 14 in

...the last 40 years, thousands of shipments of commercially generated spent nuclear fuel have been made throughout the United States without causing any radiologica ...cle/fuel-recycling/processing-of-used-nuclear-fuel.aspx Processing of Used Nuclear Fuel] for discussion of various reprocessing methods and their ability to separa

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...re many countries that have successfully utilized chemical reprocessing of nuclear fuel, that do not have nuclear weapons … such as Japan and Germany."<br>

From ''600 year old spent nuclear fuel is just another poison'', Jack Devanney, 13 Jan 2023, [https://jackdevanney ...be contact handled without any shielding at all. After year 600, the spent nuclear fuel must be swallowed in order to do any damage."

...amination''' (PIE) and fuel behavior is a page devoted to the behaviour of nuclear fuel in a power reactor and the way in which used fuel is studied. It is common ...Fluid Tests (LOFT)''' were an early attempt to scope the response of real nuclear fuel to conditions under a [[loss of coolant accident|Loss of Coolant Accident]]

* FNRs are capable of burning spent nuclear fuel, old bomb cores, depleted uranium, and thorium.<ref>[https://www.youtube.co Given the current inventory of spent nuclear fuel (which contains the plutonium), it is possible to treat this waste material

=== The nuclear fuel cycle === ...|In the nuclear fuel cycle, uranium is mined, enriched and manufactured to nuclear fuel (1) which is delivered to a nuclear power plant. After use, the spent fuel

...han the tens of thousands of years needed by a light-water reactor's spent nuclear fuel. It also permits the use of alternate nuclear fuels, such as thorium. ...uranium and plutonium from spent fuel.<ref name="rs22542">{{citation|title=Nuclear Fuel Processing: U.S. Policy Development|first1=Anthony|last1=Andrews|journal=CR

...nents that can produce an explosion from nuclear fission of weapons-purity nuclear fuel. A '''fission bomb''' can be dropped from an airplane, or at least transpor

...e is reduced. This work has been done recently in the USA, often with used nuclear fuel as the radiation source.[http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio