Russian Revolutionary Developments Will Enable 'Closed Fuel Cycle' for Nuclear Energy, IAEA Deputy Director Says
Russian Revolutionary Developments Will Enable 'Closed Fuel Cycle' for Nuclear Energy, IAEA Deputy Director Says
Unlike regular reactors that waste the uranium-238 isotope, this cycle turns it into plutonium-239—a usable fuel—and fast reactors even create more fuel than they use, allowing the same material to be reused over and over, Mikhail Chudakov told Sputnik at the World Atomic Week forum.
Russia's unique, world's most powerful research reactor, MBIR, which is under construction, will enable breakthroughs needed to close the nuclear fuel cycle and advance next-generation nuclear energy, he noted.
Russia plans to launch the world’s first nuclear energy system with a closed fuel cycle by 2030, Putin announced on Thursday.
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