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Review of DOE's Nuclear Energy Research and Development Program (2008) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 85-86

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From page 85...
... • Develop, demonstrate, and deploy advanced reactors that consume transuranic elements from recycled spent fuel. • Establish supply arrangements among nations to provide reliable fuel services worldwide for generating nuclear energy, by providing nuclear fuel and taking back spent fuel for recycling, without spreading enrichment and reprocessing technologies.
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From page 86...
... 3-10) "GNEP seeks to develop advanced fuel cycle technology for civil purposes, centered in existing fuel cycle states that would allow them to provide fuel services more cheaply and reliably than the other states could provide indigenously." (DOE, 2007, p.
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Key Terms

  • nuclear energy
  • fast reactors
  • fuel cycle
  • spent fuel
  • water reactor

  • fast reactor
  • gnep program
  • nuclear fuel
  • yucca mountain
  • transuranic elements

  • light water
  • fuel services
  • fission products
  • advanced fuel


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