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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: fuel cycle
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Definition: sequence of operations through which the nuclear material passes, such as:

  • mining, extraction, conversion, enrichment, fabrication of nuclear fuel,

  • operation of nuclear reactors (including research reactors),

  • reprocessing and recycling nuclear fuel and fertile material,

  • radioactive waste management (including decontamination).

Note 1 to entry: This entry was numbered 393-17-53 in IEC 60050-393:2003.


Publication date:2014-03
SourceISO 921:1997, definition 507, modified
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