Transition Towards a Sustainable Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Future fuel cycle characteristics, feasibility and acceptability will be crucial for
the continued development of nuclear energy, especially in the post-Fukushima context.
Fuel cycle choices have both long- and short-term impacts, and a holistic assessment
of their characteristics, cost and associated safety issues is of paramount importance.
This report associates quantified impacts with foreseeable nuclear energy development
in different world regions. It gives initial results in terms of uranium resource
availability, fuel cycle facility deployment and reactor types. In particular, the
need to achieve short doubling times with future fast reactors is investigated and
quantified. The report also provides guidelines for performing future studies to account
for a wider range of hypotheses on energy demand growth, different hypotheses regarding
uranium resource availability and different types of reactors to be deployed.
Published on September 24, 2013
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