Curio NuCycle - Recycling Spent Nuclear Fuel @ TEAC12

"At Curio we believe that nuclear technology is not limited to energy, it's about prosperity for all humanity. Cultivating a closed fuel cycle, Curio's innovation stack includes UNF recycling, Gen-IV reactors, and radioisotopes." curio.energy/
12 STATES have moratoria on new nuclear power, with six tied directly to demonstration of UNF disposal or reprocessing.
NuCycle Advances:
• Development of a modular, integrated, compact, and versatile process
• Recover fissile material agnostic to reactor type
• Recover valuable isotopes
NuCycle Impact:
• Enrichment-ready uranium extraction
• Efficiencies gained in head-end processing
• Integrated process enables semi-autonomy and safeguards-by-design
NuCycle Metrics:
• No pure Plutonium streams, Pu and MAs left w/ FPs after fluorination
• gt 99% recovery of U greatly reduces HL W
relative to direct disposal
• Provide ~0.9 wt.% U at market-competitive prices
• Design MC&A for accounting SNM to within
thoriumenergyalliance.com/
ThoriumRemix.com/ Thorium & MSR & Nuclear assets used in Thorium Remix project.

[@johnkutsch7609]

So proud of your work - thank you for coming to TEAC12

[@davidwilkie9551]

Planet saving stuff.

[@vincentcleaver1925]

So if this happens it could clear 90k tons in 45 years while covering current waste production, and in reality if it's profitable and there's demand, in less time, as added capacity or competition allows

[@Th-233]

Is the proposed HOPE reactor only intended to burn transuranics while producing U-233? Since the spent fuel will eventually run out, would it not make sense to transition some (or all) of them into plutonium iso-breeders, using excess neutrons to continue producing U-233 at a reduced rate, but indefinitely?
Long term, the value of U-233 will probably far outweigh any subsidy that might be received for destroying "waste", both in terms of increased deployment rate of thermal breeders, and profit from U-223 sales. Hopefully, incentives will not encourage a race to burn it all for short term profit, rather than building more iso-breeding thorium converters.

[@davidmacquigg4267]

I'm not happy with his answer to the question on proliferation barriers. Fission products can be separated from plutonium as easily as separating uranium. It looks like ultimately we will have to depend on weapons-level security to prevent diversion. That can be done in a few secure locations, but then how do we prevent insecure countries from getting into the reprocessing business?