Challenges

Availability of a technological response

Safety area:
Eliminate severe core damage.

Reactor and nuclear power plant designs based on maximum use of passive safety features.

Waste management:
Minimise the volume and toxicity of nuclear waste.

Multi-recycling of most dangerous long-lived radioactive elements in reactors with fast neutron spectrum.

Non-proliferation:
Furtherance of non-proliferation aims, namely that nuclear materials cannot be easily acquired or readily converted for non-peaceful purposes.

Recycling of fissile materials, together with radioactive minor actinides; integral nuclear fuel cycle without the stockpiling of Pu.

Resource base:
Increase the resource base more than ten fold.

Multi-recycling of plutonium in fast reactors.