ELFT HÍRADÓ

[Szommer Peter <szpl AT metal.elte.hu>]

ELTE Fizikai Intézet

                               ORTVAY KOLLOKVIUM
                                
                    2013. szeptember 26., csütörtök, 15:00-kor
                Az ELTE Pázmány Péter s. 1/A alatti épületében
                           földszinti 0.81 előadóban

                            Vladimir S. Kagramanyan
                (Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE)
            at the State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM), Russia)

        "Closure of nuclear energy fuel cycle as a pathway to global
                    sustainable nuclear power future"

Kivonatos ismertetés:
We expect that nuclear power capacity moderate growth in the next 1-2 decades 
after Fukushima will be based on use of advanced LWR technologies operating in 
open fuel cycle accompanied by intensive improvements in nuclear safety 
standards.

At the same time several countries with large markets (as example: Russia, 
France, India, China) are developing costly fast reactors (FR) and associated 
closed nuclear fuel cycle (CNFC) technologies, with the objective of ensuring 
a significant role for nuclear energy in their industrial development and/or 
the 'decarbonization' of their economies.

If FR and CNFC technologies are developed and commercialized in the coming 
decades the possibility will arise to address also major global nuclear 
power sustainability challenges in such areas as nuclear waste management 
and non-proliferation, for example via the establishment of regional 
multilateral fuel cycle centers providing back-end fuel cycle services 
for countries with small- and medium-sized markets. In order to establish 
such centers, numerous technical and institutional issues must be addressed, 
including those associated with the international transport of spent fuel 
and nuclear waste.

In the lecture different options for closure of nuclear fuel cycle for 
existing LWR and future FR will be presented and discussed from different 
aspects: development status; resource effectiveness; waste minimization; 
nonproliferation; economics and their applicability for use in regional 
multilateral fuel cycle centers.