Radiation Protection Feature and Researchat Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories, JAEA

摘要

In 1972, production of nuclear fuels for experimental fast breeder reactor ‘JOYO’ started atMOX fuel fabrication facilities in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Engineering Laboratories of JAEA. And in 1977Tokai reprocessing plant ‘TRP’ was launched as the first nuclear reprocessing plant in Japan with a capacityof 0.7tU/day spent fuel, and successfully reprocessed 1.116tU fuel spent by light water reactor and ‘FUGEN’up to March 2006. A lot of other nuclear facilities associated with them are located at the same Laboratories’site. A feature of radiation protection and its recent relevant researches at the Laboratories are described inthis paper.