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Review of DOE's Nuclear Energy Research and Development Program (2008) / Chapter Skim
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... Uranium and fission products would be disposed of as with thermal recycling. This strategy requires a significant, but minority, fraction of nuclear power plants to be fast reactors, which are being researched by the Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems initiative.
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... Depending on the future evolution and use of nuclear energy, particularly if nuclear energy is replaced in the longer term with other energy sources, most of these transuranics could also require geologic disposal when the fast reactors are decommissioned. The newer recycling processes would, if adopted, impact security in a number of ways.
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  • nuclear energy
  • fast reactors
  • geologic disposal
  • fuel cycle
  • spent fuel

  • power plant
  • fast reactor
  • gnep program
  • nuclear fuel
  • yucca mountain

  • nuclear waste
  • transuranic elements
  • thermal reactors
  • fission products
  • policy act

  • geologic repository


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