US EPA

1425812 

Technical Report 

Pyroprocessing as a waste management strategy 

Hannum, WH; Chang, YI; Mcpheeters, CC 

1991 

NTIS/02974025_a 

GRA and I 

GRA and I 

Pyroprocessing, as incorporated in the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) program, is being developed as a resource-efficient means of providing fuel for a reactor which has outstanding safety characteristics and performance potential. This process has been shown to be an effective way to partition uranium, transuranic elements, and fissions products. Being a gross separation process, it is not compatible with production of pure plutonium, but permits the recycle of essentially all the transuranic material to the Integral Fast Reactor for consumption. Whether this process can also significantly simplify the LWR waste disposal problem depends on the outcome of process development -- estimated to take five years, and of the subsequent applications development programs. If successful, this program could influence the ultimate waste loading of the first repository and modify the requirements for a second repository. This document, discusses the possibility of pyroprocessing being utilized in waste management strategies. 

Radioactive Waste Management; *Spent Fuels; *Pyrochemical Reprocessing; IFR Reactor; Actinide Compounds; Alpha-Bearing Wastes; Fission Products; Fuel Cycle; Uranium; Meetings; EDB/052001; EDB/220600