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The Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee’s Advice on the Application of Partitioning and Transmutation in the UK (2003)

AuteurRWMAC
6-01-5-56-23.pdf
Datumdecember 2003
Classificatie 6.01.5.56/23 (AFVAL - ACTINIDEN (-TRANSMUTATIE/VERBRANDEN))
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                                    Contents

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Foreword                                                                          2

Executive Summary                                                                 3

1. Introduction                                                                   9

2. Partitioning and transmutation – the social context                        12

3. The history of UK interest in partitioning and transmutation               15

4. The reasons behind the continuing research programmes into partitioning
   and transmutation in the USA, France, Japan and the European Union         18

5. The current status of the technology                                       20

6. A complete partitioning and transmutation system design – the current
   investment gap                                                             26

7. Application of partitioning and transmutation in the UK                    27

8. Partitioning and transmutation linked to future nuclear generation         31

References                                                                    32

Annexes

A. Partitioning and transmutation and the UK nuclear industry                 33

B. The partitioning and transmutation programme in France                     35

C. European Union policy and research and development into partitioning
   and transmutation                                                          40

D. The partitioning and transmutation programme in Japan                      48

E. The partitioning and transmutation programme in the USA                    54

Appendices

1. Membership of the RWMAC partitioning and transmutation working group       62

2. Details of meetings held                                                   63



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