COPENHAGEN, DENMARK FLSmidth has signed a contract for the supply of pyroprocessing and comminution equipment for Tianqi Lithium Australia’s lithium hydroxide processing plant, which will be located ...

A spent nuclear fuel reprocessing technology, developed by the government over 20 years at a cost of about 680 billion won, is at risk of being abandoned. The original plan was to conduct the initial ...

South Korea, like the United States, has long relied on nuclear power as a major source of electric power. As a result, it has amassed large stores of spent nuclear fuel and, as in the United States, ...

The importance of recycling the spent nuclear fuel through partitioning processes has been recognized worldwide for increasing and sustaining nuclear energy. Therefore, the development of advanced ...

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Bong-su] Recently, following the approval of a Korea-US joint research report, controversy surrounding spent nuclear fuel reprocessing technology, namely 'pyroprocessing,' ...

Though the recent revision to an atomic energy pact with the U.S. allows South Korea’s study of pyroprocessing, the nascent technology will likely increase electricity costs while failing to reduce ...

Such an increase would be even higher if it were not for the country’s 20 nuclear reactors, which generated a little more than one-third of the country’s total electricity in 2008. According to that ...

After decades of hesitation, the United States is reconsidering nuclear fuel reprocessing—reviving the debate about proliferation risks, cost, technology competitiveness, and energy security. For ...

Argonne pioneered pyroprocessing techniques to recycle nuclear fuel. Research and development in pyroprocessing may pay off for fast reactors, which already make very efficient use of natural uranium ...

Wi Sung-lac, head of the presidential Office of National Security, said in a KBS interview on the 26th that discussions between Korea and the United States are underway to give Korea more authority ...

South Korea and the United States have agreed on a 10-year joint study on the issue reprocessing spent nuclear fuel with a new, proliferation-safe technology, an official said here. A nuclear accord ...