The back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle.A French perspective

The strategy for future developments of Nuclear Energy in France is outlined.The spent fuel reprocessing, the use of Plutonium in hight Water Reactors, and the role of fast reactors will be discussed, mainly from a physics point of view.Waste management strategies like long-lived radioactive isotope partitioning and transmutation with different type of devices(fission reactors,source-driven subcritical systems,etc.) will also discussed.