Objective
The objective of this study is to give indications on what can be expected of P & T treatments under Section A.2. of the Work Programme.
The study will assess several criteria: technical feasibility of the operations needed to perform them, short term operation risks, proliferation risks, long term risks, quantities of waste generated and associated costs. The technical feasibility will be assessed on partitioning, transmutation and related fuel or targets fabrication. As regards partitioning a large review of possible processes, both improvements of present processes or promising innovative ones, as e.g. pyrometallurgy, will be discussed. An attempt to define an optimised process will be made. Transmutation techniques in PWR and FR will be assessed on the basis of core computations with assumed loads of << advanced >> MOX fuels or specific targets containing radionuclides different from the normal Pu and U components. << U-free >> reactor concept will be investigated.
Fuel and target requirements for these transmutation devices will be established, and related fabrication processes derived from them. The outline of industrial plant performing these operations will be proposed. Short term operation risks mainly concern reactor accidents and dose received by the workers due to handling radioactive materials in the fuel cycle operations.
Proliferation risks could possibly arise essentially from the quantities of fissile material available in the fuel cycle storage facilities. Long term risks are induced by potential radiotoxicity of long lived radionuclides either left at earth's surface because they are supposed to be used in a fuel cycle operation or returned to the biosphere with a delay for those remaining in the wastes disposed in deep underground repositories. In this respect, the efficiency of three geological barriers (clay, hard rock, salt) will be discussed.
The global evaluation of possible P&T strategies must also consider the time dimension and it is proposed to develop a small number of scenarios, based on these possible strategies. These scenarios will have to take into account, not only conceptual aspects, characterised e.g. by the type of steady state expected, but also the operational aspects characterised, e.g. by political or public opinion constraints, urging some countries to take decisions on radioactive waste management. The Consortium brings together research organizations from France, Germany, UK, The Netherlands, Belgium and Italy and thus represents a broad European viewpoint.
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Coordinator
30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze
France
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