Pilot Plant for Spent Fuel Reprocessing
In 1990, the State Council approved the construction of a pilot plant for reprocessing spent fuel at CNNC's 404 Company Limited. The plant was hot commissioned 20 years later in December 2010, signaling China's mastery of the technology for reprocessing spent fuel from power reactors in a closed nuclear fuel cycle. Since its hot commissioning, the plant has served as an important research platform for further development of advanced fuel reprocessing technology. In 2017, construction of China's self-designed spent fuel reprocessing demonstration project, based on a 60-ton pilot plant, began and is expected to be completed by 2023.
乏燃料后處理中間試驗(yàn)廠
1990年,國(guó)務(wù)院批準(zhǔn)在中核四〇四有限公司建設(shè)動(dòng)力堆乏燃料后處理中間試驗(yàn)工廠。經(jīng)過20年的努力,2010年12月,中試廠熱調(diào)試取得圓滿成功,標(biāo)志著中國(guó)掌握了動(dòng)力堆乏燃料后處理的核心技術(shù),實(shí)現(xiàn)了核燃料閉式循環(huán)的目標(biāo),為中國(guó)先進(jìn)后處理工程技術(shù)的開發(fā)提供了重要的研究實(shí)驗(yàn)平臺(tái)。2017年,以60噸生產(chǎn)規(guī)模的中試廠為基礎(chǔ),中國(guó)自主設(shè)計(jì)的乏燃料后處理示范工程開工建設(shè),預(yù)計(jì)于2023年建成。