Historical reprocessing of spent fuel and HLW management at the ldaho chemical processing plant

摘要

The Idaho Chemical Processing Plant (ICPP), which is a part of the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), has stored and reprocessed irradiated nuclear fuel since 1953 to recover uranium-235,neptunium-237 and krypton-85 for the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies. The primary focus of the reprocessing at ICPP was on fuels that contained highly enriched uranium for recovery of the fissile uranium with no plutonium recovery.