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A critical examination of the economic and waste management merits of the reprocessing....other management options (1985)
| Author | FOE |
| Date | June 1985 |
| Classification | 6.01.2.50/30 (REPROCESSING) |
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From the publication:
Introduction The purpose of this report is to critically examine the economic and waste management arguments put forward in favour of the immediate reprocessing of spent oxide fuel, as opposed to long-term storage or final disposal without reprocessing. It is now eight years since the Windscale Inquiry - into the application by British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL, now British Nuclear Fuels plc) to build a reprocessing plant for thermal oxide fuels (THORP). Therefore it may be instructive to compare the evidence presented there with current understanding of the issues and progress made to resolve the uncertainties in the arguments considered at that Inquiry. This report focussed on AGR and LWR (PWR, BWR, etc.) fuel and mentions Magnox fuels only where experience with Magnox reprocessing may give some indication of what may happen in the future with reprocessing of oxide fuels. A full consideration of Magnox fuels in combination with AGR and PWR fuels would have unduly complicated the analysis.
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