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Nuclear Wastelands

This page and the ones linked to the Table of Contents below are from THE NUCLEAR WASTELANDS webserver.
These pages have been written around 1997/98 and have since then not been updated, neither will they be maintained or updated anymore.

This content can be considered Public Domain.

Sellafield, UK
"Yes, this is a story of nuclear waste, plutonium and reprocessing.
The photo above shows the arrival of casks containing spent nuclear fuel at the Sellafield reprocessing complex, owned by British Nuclear Fuels Ltd. The other major reprocessing company is the French state-owned Cogema.
Their clients are, among others, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands."
(Source: Nuclear Wastelands)

Table of Contents

Front page
 Contents
 Introduction
Uranium mining and milling
 Uranium conversion and enrichment
 Fuel fabrication
 What happens in the reactor
 Spent fuel handling and interim storage
 Spent fuel versus reprocessing HLW
 A look at La Hague
 About radioactive discharges
 About fuel burn-up rates
 Plutonium "burning" in LWRs
 Uranium use and savings by MOX use
 Why MOX fuels mean trouble
 Material safeguards
 About plutonium bombs
 Plutonium industry list
Cogema reprocessing contract

Version: January 31, 2013
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