The UREX+ separations strategy provides the advantage of a focused optimization approach for the recovery of products that meet pre­determined key objectives for a fuel cycle or a waste disposal strategy. The concept has been successfully tested for the recycle of LWR SNF for a number of different product and waste form configurations. The complexity

of this separations approach increases as the desired number of products or waste forms increases. As this complexity increases so does the cost of the separations facility. The use of various separations modules requires that the integrated process be tested in order to determine any incompat­ibilities between process modules.