核燃料循环中的技术与工业演变

本文介绍了从天然铀开采到燃料生产直到后处理的整个燃料循环中的技术和工业演变。核燃料循环的焦点是燃料组件的设计和制造。燃料制造业最重要的发展是以轻水堆 MOX 燃料形式出现的钚再循环。高杰马集团在燃料循环工业中处于领先地位。

Technical and Industrial Evolutions in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

This article presents the technical status,the market,and the indus-trial evolutions in the nuclear fuel cycle,from natural uranium miningto enrichment and fuel manufacture,then to the backend of the fuelcycle.In particular,some ramarks focus on fuel manufacture,showing theevolution brought about by the recycling of the plutonium recovered dur-ing spent fuel reprocessing in mixed-oxide(MOX)fuel assemblies.Examples taken from the Cogema Group,which is active in all thephases of the nuclear fuel cycle,show the maturity that the unclear fuelindustry has now attained.