5. Fuel reprocessing and transmutation targets

Current research progress, in line with industrial strategies, suggests that the first fast neutron reactor to be deployed industrially will be the sodium-cooled RNR-Na with an oxide feeder core. However, as mentioned above, a potential future evolution towards gas-cooled reactors and carbide fuels remains conceivable. The design of processing and recycling processes and technologies therefore needs to take these developments into account, particularly in the context of a recycling strategy that is still very much open-ended (homogeneous or heterogeneous recycling) .

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