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Nuclear energy without reprocessing: A future made possible by energy conservation

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The achievements of energy conservation and the promise of future progress have rendered economically unattractive for many decades the separation of plutonium from spent reactor fuel (reprocessing) and its recycle into breeder or light water reactors. Despite this, reprocessing and recycle are already underway in Europe and Japan. If unchecked, these activities, by the end of the century, will lead to an annual flow in routine commerce of tens of thousands of kilograms of separated plutonium, a circumstance which would pose a grave threat to international security. However, continued stagnation of nuclear power programs in much of the world, due significantly to greatly reduced growth rates in electricity demand, will underscore the economic folly of reprocessing and recycle and may eventually encourage their abandonment.

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  • Feiveson, Harold, 1987. "Nuclear energy without reprocessing: A future made possible by energy conservation," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 12(10), pages 993-1001.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:12:y:1987:i:10:p:993-1001
    DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(87)90054-5
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