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Nuclear-environmental Safety of Storage and Management of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Today, the situation with spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is still complicated due to the lack of safe technologies for its cost-effective and environmentally friendly reprocessing and safe final disposal. Spent nuclear fuel is not waste in the classical definition and understanding. In this paper, spent nuclear fuel is defined as a valuable secondary energy raw material. The paper concludes that further, socially acceptable and guaranteed safe development of the global nuclear power industry is possible only under the condition of absolute priority of nuclear and environmental safety of the entire nuclear fuel cycle (NFC). In this regard, a new technology of the G5 generation based on frontal neutron-combustion nuclear power reactors is proposed to solve complex environmental problems associated with spent nuclear fuel.

Source: Construction Engineering

DOI: 10.32347/tb.2024-41.0415

Authors: Volodymyr Vaschenko, Iryna Corduba, Sergey Tsibitovsky

Institutions: Odesа Polytechnic National University, Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture

Language: English

Topic: Nuclear and radioactivity studies

Subfield: Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Affordable and clean energy, Responsible consumption and production

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4407180160

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