Nonproliferation and safeguards aspects of the IFR

Design and performance of 2D and 3D-shuffled breed-and-burn cores

“…have been developed for fuel reprocessing could be used for the extraction and diversion of fissile materials for the clandestine production of nuclear weapons. Scientific arguments have been put forth that the reprocessing technology most suited for FBR applications (electrochemical) is non-proliferating by design (Hannum et al, 1997), meaning that the recycled materials could not be used to make a nuclear weapon without significant further processing (DeVolpi, 1986). These facts have so far had little effect on the positions of political opponents of fuel reprocessing.…”

Economic assessment of alternative Pyro-SFR nuclear fuel cycle in Korea

“…Second, Korea is developing a Pyro-processing technique that has great proliferation resistance (Hannum et al, 1997) in order to recycle uranium and TRU for Pyro-SFR as raw material for nuclear fuel.…”

Electrochemical preparation and spectroelectrochemical study of neptunium chloride complexes in LiCl–KCl eutectic melts

“…Moreover, the nonselective deposition of actinides on an electrode at the electrorefining process may significantly reduce the worldwide concern of nuclear proliferation [3]. Thus, many electrochemical studies on actinide and lanthanide chloride complexes in molten chloride baths have been performed to elucidate the electrochemical behaviors of such nuclides [4].…”