Advanced Nuclear Waste Management Options and Other Innovative Nuclear Technologies for the 21st Century
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 1584
Special Issue Editors
Interests: strategic development of nuclear; nuclear waste management; partitioning and transmutation; advanced nuclear systems; core physics for nuclear reactor operation, design, analysis, and safety; development of modern modelling and simulation methods; reactor physics experiments
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Interests: actinide chemistry; actinides; centrifugal contactors; inorganic chemistry; lanthanide chemistry; lanthanide complexes; lanthanides; metallurgy & metallurgical engineering; nuclear chemistry; nuclear science & technology
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Interests: nuclear reactors; reactor physics; modelling and simulations; numerical methods; molten salt reactors; neutron transport
Interests: reactor design and engineering; methods development; fuel cycle analysis; strategy and economics studies; non-electric applications of nuclear energy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The vision of ‘zero waste nuclear’ has the potential to be the new driver for future nuclear energy development. This movement was officially initiated in 1990.
“Nuclear Partitioning and Transmutation is one of the most promising fields of nuclear technology. We expect that partitioning and transmutation technology would contribute to the enhancement of the efficiency of high-level waste disposal and the utilization of resources in the spent fuel. We believe that the basic research and development effort in this field would be beneficial for the future generations although it is not quite an alternative to the present back-end policy” [opening address of the first Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product Separation and Transmutation, 1990, T. Yamamoto].
Since this speech, nuclear waste management technologies have made considerable progress, including the demonstration of the feasibility of the separation and utilization of plutonium and minor actinides at laboratory scale in order to make nuclear technology a more viable option in the clean energy mix. However, the technologies are now at a crossroads, requiring either a major leap from laboratory-scale demonstration to industrial demonstration and application or the re-integration into nuclear power production to make the solution economically attractive. Both require a serious rethinking to develop the approaches to bring nuclear technologies to the point to deliver their expected contribution to net-zero in the 21st century in a clean, sustainable and economic way.
We welcome the submission of all paper formats related to innovative nuclear technologies, spent fuel utilization, and nuclear waste management for the 21st century, from separation technologies to fuel production; from reactor studies to waste management efforts; and from systematic studies of possible innovation strategies, policies, and societal aspects to advanced experimental works and highly innovative reactor development.
To make it short, we are interested in papers discussing nuclear energy from cradle to grave, handled in any way through advanced and innovative approaches.
Dr. Bruno Merk
Dr. Andreas Wilden
Dr. Dzianis Litskevich
Dr. Alexander Stanculescu
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Keywords
- nuclear energy
- zero-waste nuclear
- nuclear waste management
- spent fuel utilization
- partitioning
- transmutation
- advanced reactors
- reprocessing
- reverse reprocessing
- actinide separation
- waste burners
- plutonium utilization
- fast reactors
- accelerator-driven systems
- molten salt reactors
- salt clean-up
- electrochemistry
- fuel cycle scenario
- national and international programmes
- advanced fuel cycle
- advanced fuels
- advanced modular reactors
- economics of advanced nuclear
- energy policy for advanced nuclear
- societal issues of advanced nuclear
- societal issues of nuclear waste
- closed fuel cycle
- recycling
- waste management strategies
- re-use of actinides
- re-use of fission products
- waste storage
- final disposal
- geological disposal
- waste conditioning
