Status of Developments in the Back End of the Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle

摘要

Published by the International Atomic Energy Agency, 2011, IAEA Nuclear Energy Series No. NF-T-4.2, ISBN 978-92-0-112910-9, 87 p., 29.00 EUR. In the future, large scale deployment of nuclear power cannot be implemented on the basis of current technologies, considering that accessible resources of uranium are limited. New generation reactors and fuel cycle technologies should meet the following objectives: • Efficient utilization of the available uranium (and in the future, thorium) resources without restricting their use to only fissile (235U) content;