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The ceramic fuels areas have collaborations primarily under the headings of Advanced Fuels within the US/Japan bilateral and the GenIV SFR. There is also collabora- tion on Field Assisted Sintering of Nuclear Fuels under a US/EURATOM INERI arrangement. GenIV-Sodium Fast Reactor Arrangement on Advanced Fuels The Sodium Fast Reactor Advanced Fuel (SFR-AF) arrangement started in 2007 with a targeted duration of 10 years within the frame of the Generation IV Sodium Fast Reactor program.The primary objective is to investigate high burn-up Minor Actinide bearing fuels as well as cladding and wrapper materials capable of withstanding high neutron doses and temperatures. The project has been structured in 3 steps: evaluation of advanced fuels and materials options, Minor-Actinide bearing fuels evaluation, and assessment of high burn-up capability of advanced fuel(s) and materials. Participants in the arrangement include the DOE, Commissariat à l’ Énergie Atomique (CEA), JAEA, KAERI, EURATOM, China and Russia with the latter two having joined in December 2015. In FY16 program management board completed the Advanced Sodium Fast Reactor (SFR) Fuel Type Recommendation milestone which confirmed the prior Advanced Fuel Comparison report on fuel types and noted that the final SFR fuel type selection for each member country is dependent upon multiple domestic factors. The specifics of each country’s experience, infrastructure and policies are critical determining factors in addition to the technical aspects in determining a preferred fuel type; the country-specific recommendation along with the reasoning was presented for each member country. Changes in the representatives and/or alternate representatives were made for EURATOM, France, and Russia in 2016. US/Japan CNWG Collaboration on Advanced Fuels Cooperative research under the Advanced Fuels area of the Fuel Cycle R&D and Waste Management Sub-Working Group is performed under the general areas of proper- ties, performance and analysis. The goal of this effort is to perform collaborative R&D for evaluation of basic properties and irradiation behavior of advanced fuels.The objectives of the collaboration are to expand the basic properties and performance data and to improve understanding of advanced fuels with an emphasis on employment of advanced experimental tech- niques. Through incorporation of new minor actinide – mixed oxide fuel (MA-MOX) irradiation data the effort will also enable develop- ment and application of advanced modeling and simulation tools for design and performance analysis of oxide fuels. In FY16, technical expert meetings were held in Japan and in the US at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to advance specific tasks on basic properties of fuels, development of PIE data, and modeling and simulation of irradiated transmutation MOX fuel. Several joint publications from the fuel properties activities were prepared during the period. A