A) What is the savings in natural uranium if both uranium and plutonium are recycled in LWRs, assuming the following: 3% enriched fuel with 0.22% tails, 0.78% U-235 in spent fuel, 6.9 g fPu / (kg of spent fuel), 0.90 kg of spent fuel recovered/kg of fresh fuel, 0.8 Pu – U-235 equivalence.
B) What are the SWU savings for the conditions given above?

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