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In the UK, BNFL and its predecessor UKAEA (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority) have a very wide experience of making MOX fuel. Thermal MOX fuel has been made for a number of reactor types including gas-cooled reactors, BWRs and PWRs. Five assemblies were loaded in the prototype AGR at Windscale (now part of Sellafield) with excellent results. About 20 tons of fast reactor MOX fuel has been made in the period since 1970; this was used in the prototype fast reactor (PFR) operated by UKAEA at Dounreay in Scotland.
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Wilcox, P. (1995). Use of Plutonium in the UK. In: Merz, E.R., Walter, C.E., Pshakin, G.M. (eds) Mixed Oxide Fuel (Mox) Exploitation and Destruction in Power Reactors. NATO ASI Series, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2288-9_14
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