Year
2020
Abstract
China pursues actively its closed fuel cycle policy. In 2010, it began testing a pilot civilian reprocessing plant (50 tHM/year). In 2015, China started construction of the demonstration reprocessing plant (200 tHM/year). Also, China has been negotiating with France over the purchase of a commercial reprocessing plant with a capacity of 800 tHM/year. China’s Experimental Fast Reactor ( 20 MWe) started operation in 2010. The construction of CFR-600 demonstration fast reactor was started in 2017. This work will assess those plutonium separation and recycling programs. Further, it will estimate the cumulative plutonium production and the uses of separated plutonium in the fast reactors over next two decades.