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Nuclear Energy Data is the Nuclear Energy Agency's annual compilation of statistics and country reports documenting nuclear power status in NEA member countries and in the OECD area. Information provided by governments includes statistics on total electricity produced by all sources and by nuclear power, fuel cycle capacities and requirements, and projections to 2035, where available. Country reports summarise energy policies, updates of the status in nuclear energy programmes and fuel cycle developments. In 2017, nuclear power continued to supply significant amounts of low-carbon baseload electricity, in a context of strong competition from low-cost fossil fuels and renewable energy sources. Governments committed to having nuclear power in the energy mix advanced plans for developing or increasing nuclear generating capacity, with the preparation of new build projects making progress in Finland, Hungary, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Further details on these and other developments are provided in the publication's numerous tables, graphs and country reports.

Nuclear energy. --- Reactor fuel reprocessing.

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Given its potential significance for public health and the environment, the impact of radioactive releases during important steps of nuclear energy production must be considered when selecting among different fuel cycles. With this in mind, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has undertaken a comparative study of the radiological impacts of two main fuel cycle options: one with and one without reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. The study compares the respective impacts of the two options based on generic models and assumptions as well as actual data. It concludes that the difference between them is not significant. A wealth of recent data assembled and evaluated by an international expert team is provided in annex.

Nuclear fuels -- Management. --- Nuclear fuels. --- Spent reactor fuels. --- Spent reactor fuels --- Reactor fuel reprocessing --- Nuclear fuels --- Radiation --- Nuclear Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Management --- Safety measures --- Atomic fuel --- Fission fuel --- Nuclear reactors --- Reactor fuels --- Nuclear reactor fuel reprocessing --- Reprocessing of nuclear fuels --- Spent reactor fuel processing --- Fuel --- Reactor fuel reprocessing. --- Management. --- Radioactive substances --- Fission products --- Waste products --- Accelerator-driven systems

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Thermal and neutron physics analysis show that above certain concentrations of the isotope Pu-238 hypothetical nuclear explosive devices, made of reactor-grade plutonium, are technically not feasible. Future proliferation-proof fuel cycles are proposed which make use of methods of actinide tansmutation.Reactors operating in the thorium/uranium fuel cyce are loaded with <20% U-235 uranium fuel which can be made proliferation-proof against re-enrichment by adding a certain ppm level of U-232.

Enrichment --- Anreicherung --- Wiederaufarbeitung --- hochangereichertes Uran --- Plutonium --- Proliferation --- Reprocessing --- high enriched Uranium.Proliferation

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This 2009 edition of Nuclear Energy Data, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency's annual compilation of essential statistics on nuclear energy in OECD countries, provides information on plans for new nuclear construction, nuclear fuel cycle developments and projections of installed nuclear capacity to 2035 in OECD member countries. This comprehensive overview of the current situation and expected trends in various sectors of the nuclear fuel cycle provides authoritative information for policy makers, experts and academics working in the nuclear energy field.

Electric power production -- Statistics -- Periodicals. --- Nuclear power plants -- Statistics -- Periodicals. --- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -- Periodicals. --- Nuclear industry --- Nuclear power plants --- Electric utilities --- Reactor fuel reprocessing --- Nuclear reactor fuel reprocessing --- Reprocessing of nuclear fuels --- Spent reactor fuel processing --- Atomic power plants --- Nuclear power stations --- Power plants, Nuclear --- Atomic energy industries --- Atomic industry --- Atomic power industry --- Nuclear energy industry --- Nuclear power industry --- Fission products --- Nuclear fuels --- Waste products --- Accelerator-driven systems --- Nuclear facilities --- Power-plants --- Antinuclear movement --- Nuclear energy --- Energy industries

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The industrial treatment of spent nuclear fuel is presently performed using different wet chemical processes. Alternative dry processes, using pyrochemical methods, have received some attention due to their potential advantages in terms of plant design and criticality safety, as well as radiation dose. Recent progress in the transmutation of long-lived fission products and minor actinides has brought renewed interest in pyrochemical methods, as effective transmutation will be based on multi-recycling of the fuel with very high burn-up and short cooling times, conditions under which pyrochemical methods offer various advantages over wet processes. Studies of pyrochemical processes have so far been carried out at laboratory level. Considerable R&D work is still required in order to upgrade these processes to the current level of industrial aqueous processing.

ransmutation (Chemistry) -- Congresses. --- Reactor fuel reprocessing -- Congresses. --- Separation (Technology) -- Congresses. --- Reactor fuel reprocessing --- Separation (Technology) --- Transmutation (Chemistry) --- Nuclear Engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Metals, Transmutation of --- Transmutation of elements --- Transmutation of metals --- Atoms --- Nuclear physics --- Radioactivity --- France --- Combustibles nucléaires irradiés --- Séparation (Technologie) --- Transmutation (Chimie) --- Congresses --- Traitement --- Congrés --- Congrès