This 12 hour course provides an introduction to fuel cycle stages and waste management.

Topics include:

• Fuel Cycle

-Cycle steps

-Open / closed cycle

• Fuel Burnup

-Fuel performance in the reactor

-Burnup and transformation of the nuclear fuel

-Waste generation

• Spent Fuel Management

-Storage and reprocessing

-Temporally Centralized Repository

-Worldwide installations

• Waste generation at NPPs

-Source Term

-Radioactive waste classification

-Treatment and storage

• Waste Management