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CoRWM's report on Spent Fuel and Nuclear Materials

In line with CoRWM's work plan for 2014, the committee decided to review the plutonium and spent fuel in the custody of NDA.

• From: Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
• Published: 27 August 2015

Documents

Note on a Meeting with NDA on Spent Fuel and Nuclear Materials

Ref: CoRWM doc. 3227

PDF, 265 KB, 3 pages

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Details

CoRWM recognises that neither spent fuel or plutonium have been designated as being radioactive wastes. However, given that it is possible that these materials may be designated as being radioactive wastes in the future CoRWM maintains an interest in the context of robust interim storage.

NDA’s stategy remains to reprocess all Magnox fuel but it is examining a range of ‘tolerable end states’, all of which aim to fully empty the Magnox stations of fuel.

CoRWM is reassured by the ‘defence in depth’ approach being taken by the NDA, and by the openness with which potential problems are being confronted and planned for.

Published 27 August 2015