Recent Progress for the Recycling of Minor Actinides in Improved Future Nuclear Fuel Cycle

摘要

The direct geological disposal or the used fuel reprocessing followed by the geological disposal are today the envisaged solutions, depending on national fuel cycle options and nuclear waste management policies. Required time scale for the geological disposal exceeds our accumulated technological knowledge and this poses problems of public acceptance. In France, this public's concern regarding the long-term waste management made the Government to prepare and pass the 1991 and 2006 Acts, requesting in particular the study of applicable solutions for still minimizing the quantity and the hazardousness of final nuclear waste.