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El Salvador: Looking to nuclear
In 2022, El Salvador’s leadership decided to expand its modest, mostly hydro- and geothermal-based electricity system, which is supported by expensive imported natural gas and diesel generation. They chose to use advanced nuclear reactors, preferably fueled by thorium-based fuels, to power their civilian efforts. The choice of thorium was made to inform the world that the reactor program was for civilian purposes only, and so they chose a fuel that was plentiful, easy to source and work with, and not a proliferation risk.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by NNPD|Cosponsored by FCWMD
Thursday, December 2, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Columbia 3
Session Chair:
Christina Leggett (Booz Allen Hamilton)
Alternate Chair:
Luc G. Van Den Durpel
Session Organizer:
Student Assistant:
Robin Roper
Various advanced reactor and fuel technologies whereof ATF-fuels for LWRs and SMRs with HALEU or even with TRU-fuels are being developed with improved technical-economic performance and sustainability in mind. Such developments are ideally embedded into a more holistic view on the expected performance of such advanced nuclear technologies not at least from the spent nuclear fuel and waste management perspective. Such new developments present new back-end fuel cycle challenges but also opportunities including prospect towards more sustainable fuel cycle options and impacting the resulting waste management options for the future. This panel session will present the latest insights of these aspects as presented by four international experts on these matters, i.e.: • Sylvia Saltzstein (SNL, USA) • Amparo Gonzalez Espartero, IAEA, Fuel Cycle and Waste management Division • Jasmina Vujic (University of California at Berkeley, USA) • Ian McKinley (McKinley Consulting, Switzerland) Luc Van Den Durpel (Nuclear-21) will moderate this panel-session with the session being chaired by Stefani Buster.
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