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Technical Meeting on Advanced Fuel

Cycles to Improve the Sustainability of

Nuclear Power through the Minimization of

High Level Waste

Vienna, 17-19 October 2017

Amparo Gonzalez Espartero

Technical Lead of Spent Fuel Management

NFCMS/NEFW

IAEA actively supports MSs to improve their

capabilities to develop and deploy Advanced

Reactors and Innovative Related Fuel Cycle

Technologies with the aim to reduce the waste

burden and to enhance NP sustainability

• Through the organisation of:

– International conferences and workshops

– Publication of technical documents and reports

– The coordination of international research activities

through Coordinated Research Projects (CRPs)

– The management of specific databases

Technical Meeting EVT1700294, Vienna, 17 to 19 October 2017

– Yearly adopted resolutions: GC(59)/RES/12

• “Encourages the Agency’s activities on advanced nuclear fuel cycle relating to

fast reactors for potential waste burden minimization”

• “… to investigate new reactor and fuel cycle technologies with improved

utilization of natural resources and enhanced proliferation resistance, including

those needed for the recycling of spent fuel and its use in advanced reactors

under appropriate controls and for the long-term disposition of remaining waste

materials, taking into account, inter alia, economic, safety and security factors”

• “Encouraging interested MSs to consider jointly the improving of innovations in

nuclear reactors, fuel cycles and institutional approaches, such as in the

framework of the International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel

Cycles (INPRO)”

– Standing Advisory Groups (SAGs):

Standing Advisory Group on Nuclear Energy,

(SAGNE) is an internally-focused IAEA group that

advises the Director General on nuclear power, fuel

cycle and nuclear science issues

– Technical Working Groups

(TWGs)

Multiannual Programmes considering MSs

recommendations/requests expressed through:


Technical Working Groups

related to P&T: Group of experts from MSs that advises

the IAEA (NE-DDG) on the definition and

implementation of programmatic activities

TWG-NFCO: focuses on nuclear fuel cycle

options with an emphasis on spent fuel

management (storage and reprocessing

and recycling), innovative fuel cycles and

nuclear materials management

TWG-FR: assists the IAEA in formulating

an international vision applicable to fast

spectrum transmutation systems, both

critical and subcritical, for energy

production and transmutation of long-lived

radionuclides

Buenos Aires, May 2016

Vienna, April 2016


Nuclear Energy Department


Spent Fuel Management Team Scope


3rd International Conference on Fast

Reactors and Related Fuel Cycles (FR17) Yekaterinburg, RF, 26-29 June 2017

BN-800 Technical Meeting EVT1700294, Vienna, 17 to 19 October 2017

1. National and multi-national strategies and

programmes

2. Reactor concept designs

3. Operating and decommissioning experience

4. Safety and licensing

5. Fuel cycle options and processes

6. Fuels

7. Coolant technology and structural materials

8. Experiments, tests and simulation

9. Economics, performance and scenarios of industrial deployment

10. Proliferation resistance and physical protection

11. Skills, capabilities, professional development, knowledge management,

international networks

Main topics


• International Advisory Committee (IAC):

– Meeting 11 July 2016 in Vienna

– China, France, India, Japan, Russian Fed., USA,

OECD/NEA, EC-JRC, GIF

• International Scientific Programme Committee (ISPC):

– Evaluate abstract received

– Outline the scientific programme

– Peer-review the scientific papers

FR17

+440 scientific

contributions

https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/fr17-programme.pdf






Support to Member States

Embarking Nuclear Programmes • Technical Options for the Management of Radioactive Waste and

Spent Fuel in Countries Developing New Nuclear Power

Programme, November 2015, Vienna and November 2016 in

Troyes (France)

Main Objective:

To raise awareness among

Newcomer Countries to address

the issues and challenges of

SF&RWM from the very early

stages of their programmes

deployment

Training Activities, 2016

• 4th Joint IAEA-Rosatom

Meeting for Young Scientists,

1- August, 2016, Moscow

(Russia)

• ICTP/IAEA Workshop on Radiation

Effects in Nuclear Waste Forms and

their Consequences for Storage and

Disposal, 13-14 May 2016, Trieste (Italy)

• Joint ICTP/IAEA Nuclear Energy

Management School, 5-6

October 2016, Trieste (Italy) Technical Meeting EVT1700294, Vienna, 17 to 19 October 2017

IAEA related databases

NFCIS: https://infcis.iaea.org/

Advanced Reactor Information

System (ARIS) https://aris.iaea.org

Comprehensive

Curriculum Map

on SF and RW

Management,

Decommissioning

and Environmental

Remediation

Spent Fuel Management Thematic Area

Module 1 Overview and Spent Fuel

Management Strategy

Module 2 Fundamental Principles of Spent Fuel Management

Module 3 Spent Fuel Characteristics

Module 5 Spent Fuel Storage

Module 4 Spent Fuel

Transportation

Module 6 Reprocessing and

Recycling

Module 7 Advanced Fuels and Fuel Cycles


../Overview and Strategy

SF Characteritics

Transportation

Reporcessing and recycling

AFC

http://clp4net.iaea.org/


Examples from different

lectures


http://elearning.iaea.org/m2/course/index.php?categoryid=60

http://elearning.iaea.org/m2/course/index.php?categoryid=60

IAEA Networks - link:

Web Based and Meeting Components


https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/connect/Pages/default.aspx

Spent Fuel Management Network

IAEA Spent Fuel Management

Network

https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/conn

ect/SFMpublic/Pages/default.aspx


https://nucleus.iaea.org/sites/connect/SFMpublic/Pages/default.aspx



TM on AFC to Improve the Sustainability of

Nuclear Power through the Minimization of

High Level Waste

Scope and Objectives

Previous Activities on this matter

Main Objective: To review and update the developments in advanced fuel

cycles leading to minimization of waste burden

13 participants from 7 MSs:

France (4), Hungary, India, Japan (2), Republic of Korea (2), Russia Federation (2)

and USA, China (Visa issues)

Papers on:

National approaches and present status of FR fuel cycles

State of the art of advanced separation technologies

Feasibility of transmutation of TRU nuclides, MAs and LLFPs

Recovery of platinum group metals and useful FPs

Strategies and technologies aimed at WBM

• Technical Meeting on “Advanced Fuel Cycles for Waste

Burden Minimization”, 21-24 June 2016, Vienna

• Technical Meeting on “Challenges in Reprocessing Used

Fast Reactor Fuels”, Vienna, June 2015


TM on Advanced Fuel Cycles for Waste

Burden Minimisation, June 2016

Main Conclusion of the TM:

• To draft a concise and brief report (high level

document, “easy to read”) to provide policy and

decision makers with information about how

different FC strategies can minimise the burden of

generated waste, in order to help them to make

informed decisions

• The report aims at reviewing and updating the

technological developments in current and

advanced fuel cycles leading to waste burden

reduction as well as to identify key issues related to

hydro and pyro processing technologies, using the

detailed information already existing in the

literature, not duplicating this effort

• Nuclear Energy Series Report/Guide, entitled: “Existing and Advanced

Nuclear Fuel Cycle Technical Options for Waste Burden Minimisation”

Direct Disposal

U-Pu mono-

recycling

U-Pu multi-

recycling

MA

recycling

FP

separation

LLFP P&T


TM on AFC for WBM

– Main Objectives:

• To open the participation to representatives from EC, Sweden, UK,

OECD/NEA and to discuss a template to gather the information

2. CS held on 18-20 April 2017, Vienna

– Main Objectives:

• To discuss a standard template to gather the information to be

included in each FC option

• To draft the information sheet for a Technical Meeting to be held on

17-19 October 2017

• To identify objectives for a potential CRP to be discussed and

consolidated during the TM in October 2017

1. CS held on 21st October in

San Diego (US) during the

14th IEMPT (In-cooperation

with OECD/NEA):


Agreed template


Objectives of the Technical Meeting

– To describe the different technical perspectives for the existing and future management of spent fuel, issued from U/Pu fuel cycle, with an emphasis on waste burden minimisation that is foreseen in member states, considering the six fuel cycle options

– Discussed the content of information of each option to consolidate the information included and to harmonise it

– To identify objectives and issues of common interest to consolidate a technical proposal for a Coordinated Research Project (CRP) on Advanced Fuel Cycle Options to be submitted to the Committee of Coordination for Research Activities (CCRA)


Potential topics of interest for a Coordinated

Research Project (CRP)

• The main objective of the IAEA CRPs is internationally coordinate R&D activities

• The aim is not to perform R&D but to capture and gather the knowledge of experts around the world, discuss issues of common interest, specially towards industrialisation of separation processes

• Taking advantage of the IAEA having all the main actors of AFC development (France, China, India, Japan, Russian Fed, Rep of Korea, UK, US, EC, etc…)


Tentative agenda

Tuesday, 17 November 2017 9:30-9:45 1. Welcome Dir NEFW (Mr Xerri), SH-NFCM (Mr Hill)

9:45-10:15 2. Introduction participants

Objectives of the meeting Approval of the Agenda

Amparo G. Espartero

10:15-10:45 3.

Background of the IAEA activities on AFC for WBM Amparo G. Espartero

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 4. Fuel Cycle Approaches for Waste Burden

Minimisation in China ZHANG Wei

11:45-12:30 5. On extracting and application of noble metal fission

product alloy particles from spent fuel as catalysts Daqung Cui

12:30-13:15 6. Fuel Cycle Approaches for Waste Burden

Minimisation in India Kailash Agarwal

13:15-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-15:15 7. Fuel Cycle Approaches for Waste Burden Minimisation in Japan

Seiichiro Maeda Kenji Nishihara

15:15-16:00 8. Fuel Cycle Approaches for Waste Burden Minimisation in Korea

Hyo On NAM


16:15-17:00 9. Research on an Advanced Fuel Cycle on-going at INCT and Perspective of Fuel Management in Poland

Kataryna Kiegiel

17:00-17:45 10. Approaches to Minimisation of High Level Wastes in Advanced Fuel Cycles in Russian Federation

Alexander Grol

17:45-18:15 11. Developing of Conception of Spent Nuclear Fuel Management in Long-term Period (Ukraine)

Oleg Godun Valentin Kiryanchuk

Adjourn 18:15


Tentative agenda Wednesday, 18 November 2017

9:00-10:00 12. Discussion Level 1.- Direct Disposal. One through cycle

Jack Law, all

10:00-11:00 13. Discussion Level 2.- Mono recycling of Pu Dominique Warin, all

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:15 14. Discussion Level 3.- Multi-recycling U/Pu

Dominique Warin, all

12:15-13:15 15. Discussion Level 4.- Recycling MA. Am/Cm Tadashi Inoue, all


14:30-15:30 16. Discussion Level 5.- Fission Products Separation (Cs+Sr)

Il-Soon Hwang, all

15:30-16:30 17. Discussion Level 6.- Transmutation LLFP Reiko Fujita, all


16:45-17:30 18. Discussion on how to finalise the report All

Adjourn 18:00 (Hospitality Event at Salon C, VIC)

Thursday, 19 November 2017

9:00-10:30 19. Discussion to finalise the report All

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 20. Discussion to finalise the report All


13:45-15:00 21. Discussion on general and particular objectives for a CRP on Advanced Fuel Cycles. Identification of potential partners

All


15:30-17:30 22. To draft the proposal for the CRP on AFC All

Adjourn 17:30


Thank you for your kind attention!

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