Reduction and Resource Recycling of
High-level Radioactive Waste
through Nuclear Transmutation

PROGRAM OUTLINE

The high level radioactive wastes that are produced when spent fuel from nuclear power plants is reprocessed are vitrified in glass solid and disposed of through geological disposal.
These high level radioactive wastes include long-lived fission products, and the concerns regarding long-term storage have not been removed. As a result, the difficulty in deciding on disposal sites for these wastes is a social issue.
The goal is to reduce the burden on future generations resulting from the processing and disposal of high level radioactive wastes, and to recycle the recovered platinum group elements, rare metals and other materials in order to keep a supply of resources without being affected by overseas markets.

PM:Reiko Fujita
Project 1 Separation and recovery technologies Project 2 Nuclear data for transmutation Project 3 PHITS, Reaction Model Project 4 New control of nuclear reactions Project 4 Transmutation system and elemental Technologies Project 5 Conceptual S&T system

Research and development system

Reduction and Resource Recycling pf High-level Radioactive Wastes through Nuclear Transmutation