PROPERTIES OF RECYCLED ZIRCONIUM

摘要

The concept and draft of the federal law view spent nuclear fuel as a valuable initial resource. The commercial technologies, which are under development, making it possible to use spent nuclear fuel as a resource stock are oriented only toward using the nuclear materials contained in them -~(235)U for thermal and ~(235)U and plutonium isotopes for fast reactors. There is no doubt that the radiochemical technology for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel in the near future will develop under sharp economic competition with long-term storage technologies. The maximum use of secondary products of fuel-assembly reprocessing is an important element for increasing the competitiveness of the radiochemical technology under modern conditions.