Juin 2016 / IPFM

Use of plutonium in MOX in the European Union

By IPFM on June 6, 2016 7:27 AM | 0 TrackBacks

According to the 2015 Euratom Annual Report, EU-28 countries used 10,780 kg of plutonium in MOX fuel of their nuclear reactors, brining the cumulative total to 195,019 kg of plutonium used in MOX in 1996-2015. According to the report, in 2015 the use of MOX fuel resulted in savings of 1050 tons of natural uranium and 742 tSWU of separative work. For comparison, the EU purchased about 16000 tons of natural uranium in 2015, of which 212 tons (…)

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