Browsing by Subject "spent fuel"
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(2010-07-14)Reprocessing nuclear fuel is becoming more viable in the United States due to the anticipated increase in construction of nuclear power plants, the growing stockpile of existing used nuclear fuel, and a public desire to ...
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(2011-10-21)The development of non-destructive assay (NDA) capabilities to directly measure the fissile content in spent fuel is needed to improve the timely detection of the diversion of significant quantities of fissile material. ...
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(2015-09-29)The Fuel Cycle and Materials Laboratory at Texas A&M University needs a method of removing impurities from depleted uranium samples. A non-aqueous, lab-scale electrorefiner will be constructed to solve this problem. The ...
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(1995)Current estimates state that approximately 60,000 tons of spent fuel (with burn-ups of 33,000 MW-days/MTU) currently await shipment to the repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. This amount is likely to double before the ...
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(2013-11-27)The goal of this research was to develop a methodology to collect inventory estimates for the analysis and characterization of used fuel in the United States. To accomplish this, the Spent Fuel Database (SFD) was created. ...
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Simulation of Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence for the Quantification of Plutonium-239 in Nuclear Fuel (2015-12-08)There is a need for a technique that is able to quickly and accurately quantify the amount of ^239Pu in spent nuclear fuel. With the recent developments of mono-energetic gamma-ray systems, it may be possible to use Nuclear ...