Webinar 025: Sci & Tech Problems of Closed Nuclear Fuel Cycle in Two Component Nuclear Energetics

The webinar presents the overview of scientific and technical problems of closed nuclear fuel cycle in two-component nuclear energetics. The presentation will highlight the existing problems of the current technological platform of NE (thermal reactors in an open nuclear fuel cycle) and the advantages of the new technological platform (fast reactors with closed nuclear fuel cycle). Latest developments associated with the use of mixed UN fuel & spent nuclear fuel reprocessing are briefly presented as well. The remaining research challenges of the new technological platform being developed within the “Proryv” Project framework are summarized in the light of the present technology understanding.
Mr. Alexander Orlov, Ph.D. is the advisor to the Scientific Director of R&D of the “Proryv” Project. Since 2012, he has been a member of the team developing a new technological platform for NE which consists of fast reactors with lead and sodium coolants, a new type of reactor fuel (mixed U-Pu nitride), and technologies to reprocess spent nuclear fuel in order to return it into the fuel cycle. These technologies combined are known as the “Proryv” Project.