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The Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors (RERTR) Program develops technology necessary to enable the conversion of civilian facilities using high enriched uranium (HEU) to low enriched uranium (LEU) fuels and targets. The RERTR Program was initiated by the U.S. Department of Energy in 1978. During the Program's existence, over 40 research reactors have been converted from HEU (= or >20% U-235) to LEU (< 20% U-235) fuels, and processes have been developed for producing radioisotopes with LEU targets. The RERTR Program is managed by the Office of Nuclear Material Threat Reduction in the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The main technology components of the program are:
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Conceptual Process Description Document for Fuel Fabrication Capacity |
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Conceptual Process Description Document for
Fuel Fabrication Capacity
The National Nuclear Security Agency Global Threat
Reduction Initiative (GTRI) is tasked with minimizing
the use of high-enriched uranium (HEU) worldwide. A
key component of that effort is the conversion of
research reactors from HEU to low-enriched uranium (LEU)
fuels. The GTRI Convert Fuel Development program,
previously known as the Reduced Enrichment for
Research and Test Reactors program was initiated in
1978 by the United States Department of Energy to
develop the nuclear fuels necessary to enable these
conversions. The program cooperates with the research
reactors’ operators to achieve this goal of HEU to LEU
conversion without reduction in reactor performance.
The programmatic mandate is to complete the conversion
of all civilian domestic research reactors by 2014.
These reactors include the five domestic
high-performance research reactors (HPRR), namely: the
High Flux Isotope Reactor at the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, the Advanced Test Reactor at the Idaho
National Laboratory, the National Bureau of Standards
Reactor at the National Institute of Standards and
Technology, the Missouri University Research Reactor
at the University of Missouri–Columbia, and the MIT
Reactor-II at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Characteristics for each of the HPRRs are
given in Appendix A.
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Conceptual Process Description Document for
Fuel Fabrication CapacityFuels for Research and Test Reactors
- Currently-Qualified Fuels
- Advanced Fuel Development
- Foreign Research Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel
- IAEA/USA Interregional Training Course
on Technical and Administrative Preparations Required for Shipment of Research Reactor Spent Fuel to Its Country of Origin - January 1997
Design and Safety Analyses for Research and Test Reactors
Radioisotope Production
Reference Documents concerning the RERTR Program
RERTR International Meetings
Upcoming RERTR International Meetings
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The U.S. Department of Energy / National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Global Threat Reduction is hosting the “RERTR 2008 International Meeting on Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors” in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The meeting is being organized by Argonne National Laboratory and will be held in Washington, D.C. USA from October 5-9, 2008. This will be the 30th annual meeting in a series on the same general subject regarding the conversion of reactors within the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI). RERTR-2008 related resources:
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Past RERTR International Meetings
2007 RERTR Meeting
- RERTR-2007
- Abstracts and Full Papers Presented at the 2007 RERTR Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, September 23-27, 2007.
2006 RERTR Meeting
- Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 2006 RERTR Meeting, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa, Oct. 29-Nov. 2, 2006
2005 RERTR Meeting
- Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 2005 RERTR Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, November 6-10, 2005
RERTR Meeting Archive (1995-2004)
- Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 2004 RERTR Meeting, Vienna, Austria, November 7-12, 2004
- Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 2003 RERTR Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 5-10 October 2003
- Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 2002 RERTR Meeting, Bariloche, Argentina, November 3-8, 2002
- Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 2000 RERTR Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 1-6 October, 2000
- Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 1999 RERTR Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, 3-8 October, 1999
- Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 1998 RERTR Meeting, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 18-23 October 1998
- Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 1997 RERTR Meeting, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA, 5-11 October 1997
- Abstracts and Available Papers Presented at the 1996 RERTR Meeting, Seoul, Korea, 6-11 October 1996
- Papers Presented by ANL at the 1995 RERTR Meeting, Paris, France, 18-22 September 1995
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