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4. Particulate fuel reprocessing
4.1 Issues and reprocessing options
The fuel cycle most commonly envisaged for HTR consists of irradiation in a single pass through the reactor, followed by direct storage of the spent fuel (open cycle). However, the large volume of graphite involved (table 2 ) and the need to meet the main criteria defined by the Generation IV international forum, in particular those of sustainable development, naturally lead to the proposal , as an alternative to direct storage, of U-Pu or grouped recycling of all actinides contained...
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