Proceedings of the Second International
Information Exchange Meeting on Actinide and Fission Product
Separation and Transmutation Argonne, United States, 1992

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Welcome Remarks
  Y.I. Chang and G.H. Stevens

SESSION 1: Current Strategic System of Actinide and Fission Product Separation and Transmutation
Chairman: F.J. Goldner (United States)

• Radioactive Waste R&D, French Law and Consequences on the R&D Programme
  G. Baudin (France)
• Present Status of the OMEGA Programme in Japan
  M. Nakamura, et al. (Japan)
• Effects of an LMR-based Partitioning Transmutation System on US Nuclear Fuel Cycle Health Risk
  G.E. Michaels, et al. (United States)
• A Strategic Study of the Partitioning and Transmutation System being Developed at JAERI
  H. Yoshida, et al. (Japan)
• Role and Influence of Partitioning and Transmutation on Management of Nuclear Waste Streams
  L.H. Baetslé (Belgium)
• R&D Programme for the Transmutation of Minor Actinides (MA) and Long-Lived Fission Products (FP) at KfK (not presented)
  H. Küsters, et al. (Germany)
  

SESSION 2: Progress in R&D on Partitioning Processes, Wet and Dry
Chairman: L. Koch (CEC)

• IFR Fuel Cycle-Pyroprocess Development
  J.J. Laidler (United States)
• The French Situation on Long-Lived Radioisotope Separation Studies (Puretez and Actinex Programmes)
  G. Baudin (France)
• Development of Partitioning Process in JAERI
  M. Kubota, et al. (Japan)
• Some Modifications of the TRUEX Flowsheet for Partitioning of Actinide Elements in High-Level Liquid Waste
  M. Ozawa, et al. (Japan)
• Pyrochemical Processes for LWR Spent Fuel
  C. McPheeters, et al. (United States)
• Thermodynamic Properties of Actinides and Rare Earths in Molten Salt and Cadmium, and Prediction of Separation Efficiency
  Y. Sakamura, et al. (Japan)
• Chemical Processing Associated with the Accelerator Transmutation of Waste (ATW) Concept
  H.J. Dewey, et al. (United States)

SESSION 3: Progress in R&D on Transmutation, and Refinements of Neutronic and Other Data
Chairmen: H. Yoshida (Japan) and M. Nakamura (Japan)

• Physics Considerations in the Design of Liquid Metal Reactors for Transmutation Element Consumption
  H. Khalil, et al. (United States)
• Recycling of Minor Actinides in Metal Fuel FRB
  T. Inoue, et al. (Japan)
• First Results and Future Trends for the Transmutation of Long-Lived Radioactive Wastes
  C. Prunier, et al. (France)
• Reduction of Minor Actinides in Nuclear Waste Via Multiple Recycling in Fast Reactors
  J. Journet, et al. (France)
• Characteristics of a Heterogeneous TRU-Loading Core
  Yamaoka, et al. (Japan)
• A Continuous Transmutation System for Long-Lived Nuclides with Accelerator-Driven Fluid Targets
  H. Katsuta, et al. (Japan)
• Transmutation Capability of the High Flux Reactor BR2 for Minor Actinides and Long-Lived Fission Products
  L.H. Baetslé, et al. (Belgium)
• Swiss Activities in the Field of Transmutation
  P. Wydler (Switzerland)

SESSION 4: Development of the Fuel Cycle, Processes, Fuel Types, and Targets
Chairman: M. Salvatores (France)

• Criteria for the Development of Targets and Fuels in Nuclear Transmutation
  L. Koch (CEC)
• Minor Actinide Transmutation in Fission Reactors and Fuel Cycle Considerations
  T. Mukaiyama, et al. (Japan)
• Study on Transmutation of Fission Products at PNC
  H. Takashita, et al. (Japan)
• Analysis of the Los Alamos Accelerator-Driven Transmutation System
  P.A. Landeyro, et al. (Italy)
• Progress of Super-Power CW Electron Lineac Development at PNC
  K.Haga, et al. (Japan)
• Effects of Actinide Compositional Variability in the US Spent Fuel Inventory on Partitioning-Transmutational Systems
  S.B. Ludwig, et al. (United States)
• Conceptual Design Study of an Accelerator-Based Actinide Transmutation Plant with Sodium-Cooled Solid Target/Core
  T. Takizuka, et al. (Japan)
• The Energy Requirement for Transmuting Fission Products
  H. Takahashi, et al. (United States)
• Closing Summaries and Discussion
  Moderator: Y. Orechwa (United States)

ANNEXES

• Viewgraphs: L.H. Baetslé's Presentation on Approaches to Systems Studies
• Japanese Proposal on Preliminary System Study of Partitioning and Transmutation of Long-Lived Nuclides in High-Level Radioactive Waste.

Last reviewed: 6 April 2011