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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
Sunanta Patrashakorn, Reiner Papp
Nuclear Technology | Volume 51 | Number 1 | November 1980 | Pages 7-12
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32550
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Coprocessing is conceived as a method in which the plutonium is never available in a separate stream. In addition, it is possible to keep the transuranium actinides with the plutonium and uranium streams rather than allowing them to leave with the fission products and terminate in the high level waste. The recovered actinide product can be reconstructed as a fuel and recycled in light water reactors. But even after nine cycles the fuel composition does not reach equilibrium. Since the plutonium is never separated from other actinides, the potential of proliferation can be reduced.
