CLOSING THE CYCLE
WITH NUCYCLE WE CLOSE THE CYCLE
Used Nuclear Fuel (UNF) can be recycled and power modern day reactors. However, UNF has a blend of short-lived fission products, and transuranic isotopes that have intermediate half-lives of tens of thousands of years – with NuCycle nuclear waste can be a thing of the past.
A PARADIGM
SHIFT
The lack of recycling in the United States (known as reprocessing) has necessitated geologic storage for hundreds of millennia. With NuCycle transuranic fuel and a wide plethora of isotopes are extracted so that they can serve humanity as fuel for fast-spectrum reactors or other advanced tech applications.
RESTORING
PUBLIC CONFIDENCE
Polling reveals that a majority of U.S. citizens view nuclear power unfavorably, despite being concerned about climate change; and that dealing with SNF remains the primary concern for those who may otherwise approve of greater deployment of nuclear power. By Closing the Cycle with NuCycle the Second Nuclear Era can begin.
SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS
Reintroducing economic upside to the equation, the NuCycle system is designed to create holistic outcomes for all stakeholders.
SAFEGUARDS
BY DESIGN
With the goal of avoiding the production of a pure plutonium stream, NuCycle utilizes break-through chemistries that greatly reduce criticality concerns. Moreover, reinforced proliferation resistance of TRUs, enhanced by concentrating FPs, ensures long term viability and security through a simplified process and improved MC&A. Built with a semi-autonomous operation and enhanced security for electric and computer networks, NuCycle is ready to CLOSE THE CYCLE in a modern age.
ENVIRONMENT
AND ECONOMICS
Using mediums that are impervious to radiolysis and can be efficiently recycled, NuCycle never utilizes organic solvents or reagents that leave behind waste problems of their own. Utilizing chemistries that increase operational modularity, capacity and economic viability, NuCycle offers a recycling opportunity that operates with fewer vessels, better optimized instrumentation and a major reduction in the need for expensive effluent treatment systems.