Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 2000 International RERTR Meeting
Twenty years
of RERTR in Russia: past, present and future
N.Arkhangelsky
Minatom of Russia
ABSTRACT
The Russian RERTR Program started approximately 20 years ago. The USSR always supported principles and goals of the
policy of nonproliferation and at the end of 70’s the Soviet Government
decided to create such national program. Twenty years is the sufficient
time to estimate preliminary results of the realization of the program
and its prospects on the future. After the first successes of the
program, when the enrichment of uranium in fuel elements for foreign
supplies was reduced from 80 % to 36 %, the realization of the program
was suspended in connection with financial difficulties. But in
the beginning of the 90’s the Program has received a new pulse connected
to the inclusion of Russian scientists and engineers in the international
Program. Now basic directions in development of new kinds of fuel
are development of works on fuel on a basis dioxide of uranium and
development of fuel on a basis of U-Mo alloy. In the future to basic
goals of the program the problem of the management of the spent
nuclear fuel should be added. The management of HEU at the final stage of a fuel cycle becomes an important
objective of the program, since the basic amount of HEU is concentrated
in storage of SNF.