Spent Nuclear Fuel
Finnish Concept for Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal
... using nuclear power, Fortum Power and Heat Oy (Fortum) and Teollisuuden Voima Oy ...the Nuclear Energy Act, Fortum and TVO are responsible for the safe management of the waste and for all associated ...
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Structural integrity assessment of spent nuclear fuel rod under drop accident condition
... of spent fuel assembly is a key element for flexible and economic management of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) considering handling and transportation operations in most of the management ...
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Damage Assessment of Interim Dry Storage Casks for Spent Nuclear Fuel
... For this purpose the coupled thermo-hygro-mechanical finite element code developed at Padua University, called NEWCON3D, which treats concrete as a multiphase system, will be updated in order to take into account the ...
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A Study of Continuous Electrochemical Processing Operation Feasibility for Spent Nuclear Fuel
... of nuclear energy is the availability in spent nuclear fuel of recyclable fissile and fertile materials able to provide new fuel to generate ...pollution. Spent nuclear ...
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Risk assessment of spent nuclear fuel facilities considering climate change
... of spent nuclear fuel stored in a facility subject to flood hazard, investigating the potential and limi- tations of Bayesian networks (BNs) in this ...
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY PROCESS FOR THE SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
... In spent nuclear fuel (SNF) reprocessing technology, the hydrometallurgical scheme in the version of the classic PUREX process was today ...reprocessing, spent nuclear fuel, ...
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Technical Challenges Related to the Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Cask Storage/Transportation Structural Analysis and Design
... transport nuclear fuel to the proposed long term ...certified spent nuclear fuel transportation cask in a realistically severe accident and to demonstrate NRC’s ability to predict such ...
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Buckling Behavior of Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods under Impact Loading
... of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) rods when subjected to impact loading due to transportation accident scenarios after long-term ...The fuel rod consists of a zircaloy cladding that stores ...
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Evaluation of Uncertainties Related to the Near Field Model of Geological Repository for Spent Nuclear Fuel
... In Slovakia, a direct disposal of spent nuclear fuel in a deep geological repository within the coun- try after a certain period of interim storage is a preferred option. This paper briefly describes ...
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Contribution of energetically reactive surface features to the dissolution of CeO2 and ThO2 analogues for spent nuclear fuel microstructures
... of nuclear waste, the release of radioactivity from the repository is controlled by the dissolution of the spent fuel in ...understanding spent fuel dissolution, including the ...
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Contribution of energetically reactive surface features to the dissolution of CeO2 and ThO2 analogues for spent nuclear fuel microstructures
... 8 9 We have observed that crystallographic orientation of the grains plays an important role in the dissolution 10 of the grain boundaries of spent nuclear fuel analogues; grain boundari[r] ...
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Decay heat power of spent nuclear fuel of power reactors with high burnup at long-term storage
... closed fuel cycle, in which the natural nuclear fuel and the artificial fissionable materials produced as a result of reactor operation (plutonium and the like) are used to a much more complete ...
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Contribution of Energetically Reactive Surface Features to the Dissolution of CeO2 and ThO2 Analogues for Spent Nuclear Fuel Microstructures
... of nuclear waste, the release of radioactivity from the repository is controlled by the dissolution of the spent fuel in ...understanding spent fuel dissolution, including the ...
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Localization of Plastic Deformation in Copper Canisters for Spent Nuclear Fuel
... × 8 mm). In the cross-weld testing failure occurred al- ways in the centreline of the EB weld, but the measured elongations to fracture were high and comparable to the base material testing results. Specimens comprising ...
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Practical Perspectives on Spent Nuclear Fuel Transportation Risks
... The goal of this work is to provide some insight into the practical understanding and relative significance of the risk values presented in a transportation risk assessment. This will be achieved by performing a ...
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The behaviour of spent nuclear fuel in wet interim storage
... closed fuel cycle until ...open fuel cycle there is no reprocessing step and the spent nuclear fuel goes straight for final disposal after a period of interim ...the spent ...
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An investigation of the interactions of Eu3+ and Am3+ with uranyl minerals: implications for the storage of spent nuclear fuel
... sheets of minerals, 9 as has been observed with Np. Whilst americium is not a major principle component of SNF (ca. 0.06 wt%), decay of 241 Pu, which is a significant fraction of irradiated fuel, means that 241 Am ...
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Safe Controlled Storage of SVBR 100 Spent Nuclear Fuel in the Extended Range Future
... a nuclear raw material for producing of plutonium-239 for the future NP based on FRs operating in the closed NFC and eliminating the prob- lem of NP fuel providing for centuries (within the reasonable ...
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Stakeholder preference mapping-seeking a way forward for the processing of spent nuclear fuel
... concerns spent fuel and nuclear materials management and a wish to understand and respond not only to the financial dimensions of a range of options, but also the socio-political, technological, ...
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The Electrochemical Study of Simulated Spent Nuclear Fuel (SIMFUEL) Corrosion under Permanent Disposal Conditions
... of spent fuel disposal is very complex, and has been the focus of much international research for ...by nuclear energy is the spent ...used fuel bundles, sufficient to fill seven hockey ...
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