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Animations of the processing technology are also available.<ref>[https://www.ne.anl.gov/mm/legacy/ Argonne’s Nuclear Science and Technology Legacy,Multimedia Resources, pg 2 ''The New Explorers: Atoms for Peace (History of the Integral Fast Reactor) – 4 parts'']</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBThTwFhRlA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/cBThTwFhRlA |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=Historical video about the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) concept. Uploaded by – Nuclear Engineering at Argonne|website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In South Korea due to the historical [[Section 123 Agreement]] between ROK and the U.S,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-South-Korea-wins-revisions-to-nuclear-treaty-with-USA-2241501.html|title = South Korea wins revisions to nuclear treaty with USA - World Nuclear News}}</ref> neither enrichment nor PUREX related reprocessing were permitted, with researchers therefore increasingly viewing the "proliferation resistant" pyroprocessing cycle, as the solution for the nation's growing spent fuel inventory, in 2017 forming a collaboration with the U.S and Japan to advance the economics of the process.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://atomicinsights.com/potential-korea-japan-u-s-collaborate-pyroprocessing-trump/|title = Potential for Korea, Japan, U.S. To Collaborate on Pyroprocessing Under Trump - Atomic Insights|date = 18 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2008_04/LymanVonHippel|title=Reprocessing Revisited:The International Dimensions of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership &#124; Arms Control Association}}</ref> In 2019, proponents of [[molten salt reactor]] (MSR) fuel cycles, frequently argue pairing the uncommercialized MSR with the pyroprocessing fuel cycle, as the MSR fuel is already in molten salt form, eliminating two process conversion steps, that of to-and-from metallic fuel, that both the commercially proposed IFR would have required and its antecedent physically demonstrated, when pyroprocessing was fielded in the [[EBR-II]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Riley |first1=Brian J. |last2=McFarlane |first2=Joanna |last3=DelCul |first3=Guillermo D. |last4=Vienna |first4=John D. |last5=Contescu |first5=Cristian I. |last6=Forsberg |first6=Charles W. |title=Molten salt reactor waste and effluent management strategies: A review |journal=Nuclear Engineering and Design |date=April 2019 |volume=345 |pages=94–109 |doi=10.1016/j.nucengdes.2019.02.002 |osti=1495933 |s2cid=117608596 }}</ref>

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