Fast Reactor Fuel Cycle

Synopsis

In August 1982 at the prototype fast reactor, Dounreay, new fuel assemblies, containing plutonium originally created in this reactor, were loaded into the reactor core for the first time. This marked the completion of a fuel cycle, during which newly created plutonium is recovered by reprocessing, then fabricated into the new fuel before being put back into the reactor. Explains in detail the thermal and fast reactor fuel cycles, the physics of the subject and the practical operation of the prototype fast reactor, and its reprocessing plant and new fuel fabrication plant.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min.

Year of production

1982

Availability

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION

Uses

Background material to courses on nuclear physics at sixth form and university level.*

Subjects

Physics

Keywords

nuclear power industries; plutonium

Distributor

Name

AEA Technology

Phone

01235 433333

Fax

01235 436548

Address

BNIF Education Programme
329 Harwell
Didcot, Oxon
OX11 0RA

Notes

formerly United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authorigy (UKAEA)