AECL's Progress in Developing the DUPIC Fuel Fabrication Process

Abstract

Spent Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) fuel can be used directly in CANDU" reactors withoutthe need for wet chemical reprocessing or reenrichment. Considerable experimental progress hasbeen made in verifying the practicality of this fuel cycle, including hot-cell experiments usingspent PWR fuels and out-cell trials using surrogate fuels. This paper describes the current statusof these experiments.