Reprocessing and Recycling of Spent Nuclear Fuel (Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy, Band 79) - Hardcover

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Robin J. Taylor, National Nuclear Laboratory, UK.

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The nuclear reactors currently in operation around the world produce large quantities of used nuclear fuel annually. Management of this waste is a pressing issue with important political, environmental, economic and societal consequences. One option is to operate a closed fuel cycle by recovering and reusing valuable constituents from the fuel, with the duel benefits of raw material demand reduction and minimisation of hazardous end waste. Reprocessing and recycling of spent nuclear fuel presents an authoritative overview of spent fuel reprocessing and considers future prospects for advanced closed fuel cycles.

Part One introduces the recycling and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, reviewing past and current technologies, the possible implications of Generation IV nuclear reactors and associated safely and security issues. Parts Two and Three then focus on aqueous-based reprocessing methods, including minor actinide partitioning, and pyrochemical methods respectively. The final part of the book addresses the potential for implementation of advanced closed fuel cycles in different parts of the world.

Reprocessing and recycling of spent nuclear fuel is a key reference text for R&D professionals, academics and postgraduates working on the separation and recycling of actinides from spent nuclear fuels.

Robin Taylor is a Senior Laboratory Fellow for the National Nuclear Laboratory, UK and visiting professor at the universities of Manchester and Lancaster.