Storage of thermal reactor fuels – Implications for the back end of the fuel cycle in the UK
Fuel from UK's Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors (AGRs) is being reprocessed, however reprocessing will cease in 2018 and the strategy for fuel that has not been reprocessed is for it to be placed into wet storage until it can be consigned to a geological disposal facility in around 2080. Although r...
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| Language: | English |
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EDP Sciences
2016-01-01
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| Series: | EPJ Nuclear Sciences & Technologies |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjn/2016014 |