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2. Composition of transmutation fuels
2.1 Actinide compounds
Whichever recycling method is considered, minor actinides are preferentially transmuted in their fluorite face-centered cubic dioxide form (see table 2 ), which is known from extensive experience with LEU and MOX fuel to offer good stability under irradiation.
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Website
EUROTRANS European FP6 project http://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00195198
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Documentation sources
High-level and long-lived radioactive waste/Research and results. Law of December 30, 1991. Focus 1.
Final report, December 2005 (CEA collective work).
Report CEA/DEN/DDIN/2005-568.
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