Actinidc and Fission Product Partitioning and Transmutation

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Table of contents......Page 7 Executive summary......Page 11 Opening......Page 19 INL welcome address......Page 21 OECD/NEA welcome address......Page 23 Plenary Session: National Programmes on P&T......Page 25 OECD/NEA activities related to partitioning and transmutation......Page 27 The IAEA Co-ordinated Research Project (CRP) on “Analytical andExperimental Benchmark Analyses of Accelerator-driven Systems”*......Page 33 EURATOM research and training programme for partitioning and transmutation......Page 35 United States programme on partitioning and transmutation......Page 41 Future nuclear systems: Fuel cycle options and guidelines for research......Page 43 Minor-actinide-bearing fuel study activities in Japan for homogeneous TRU recycling fast reactor system......Page 45 Perspectives of pyroprocesses for long-term spent fuel management in Korea......Page 55 Session I: Fuel Cycle Strategies and Transition Scenarios......Page 61 International comparison for transition scenario codes involving COSI,DESAE, EVOLCODE, FAMILY and VISION......Page 63 Industrial research for transmutation scenarios......Page 75 Requirements-driven comprehensive approach to fuel cycle back-end optimisation......Page 87 World transition towards sustainable nuclear fuel cycle......Page 95 Overview on homogeneous and heterogeneous transmutation in a new French SFR: Reactor and fuel cycle impact......Page 115 Current status and future plan of research and development on partitioning and transmutation technology in Japan......Page 125 Session II: Waste Forms and Geological Disposal......Page 135 Fuel cycle potential waste for disposition......Page 137 Applying insights from repository safety assessments to evaluating impacts of partitioning and transmutation......Page 147 Relationship between geologic disposal characteristics and advanced nuclear fuel cycles with partitioning and transmutation......Page 157 The environmental impacts of Korean advanced nuclear fuel cycle KIEP-21 and disposal concepts......Page 167 Session III: Transmutation Fuels and Targets......Page 177 Minor actinide transmutation in an accelerator-driven system prototype: Results from fuel developments within the European programme EUROTRANS......Page 179 Development of minor actinide transmutation by CRIEPI......Page 189 Development programme on minor-actinide-bearing blankets at CEA......Page 203 Fuels for the United States DOE Deep Burn programme......Page 215 Progress of the CEA ALFA project: Atalante Laboratory for Actinide-bearing Fuel Manufacturing......Page 217 Behaviour of zirconium on passivated U-Zr-based fuel alloys......Page 223 Session IV: Pyro and Aqueous Processes......Page 233 ACSEPT – Progress in advanced partitioning and challenges for the future*......Page 235 Development of separation process for transuranium elements and some fission products using new extractants and adsorbents......Page 237 Recent progress in advanced actinide recycling processes......Page 247 One-cycle SANEX process development studies and lab-scale demonstrations......Page 249 Development of a novel GANEX process......Page 259 Advanced head-end for the treatment of used LWR fuel......Page 267 Current progress in R&D on pyrochemical partitioning technology in the Czech Republic......Page 271 Pyropartitioning experiment to recover TRU from high-level liquid waste......Page 279 Session V: Transmutation Physics and Materials......Page 289 Pb alloys’ coolant chemistry and structural materials performance:A review*......Page 291 Critical analysis of the effective delayed neutron fraction calculation routes by deterministic and Monte Carlo codes......Page 293 Experimental validation of reactivity monitoring techniques for powerADS systems to incinerate radioactive wastes......Page 305 Reaction cross-sections, fission yields and prompt neutron emission from actinide targets......Page 307 Investigation of nuclear data accuracy for the accelerator-driven system with minor actinide fuel......Page 317 Session VI Transmutation System: Design, Performance and Safety......Page 331 Progress review of accelerator-driven system at Kyoto University Critical Assembly......Page 333 Technology readiness levels for partitioning and transmutation of minor actinides in Japan ........Page 343 Advanced fuel cycle scenario study in the European context using different burner reactor concepts......Page 353 The Multi-purpose Hybrid Research Reactor for High-tech Applications(MYRRHA)......Page 365 The Deep Burn project: 2010 overview and progress......Page 375 Systematic evaluation of uranium utilisation in nuclear systems......Page 381 List of participants......Page 391