Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
The study identifies several spent fuel waste forms as well as the high level waste (HLW) and other waste forms from fuel reprocessing, defines facility and system design features to handle, transport, process, encapsulate, and dispose of these spent fuel and waste forms, and provides a comparative assessment of each of the spent fuel/waste alternatives with respect to technical feasibility, safeguards, criticality, radiological impact, retrievability, and economics. This volume provides the reader with a general overview of the study, coupled with the specific conclusions developed from the comparative assessments of the study cases and study variations.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309052262 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 590
Book Description
Disposal of radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production and power generation has caused public outcry and political consternation. Nuclear Wastes presents a critical review of some waste management and disposal alternatives to the current national policy of direct disposal of light water reactor spent fuel. The book offers clearcut conclusions for what the nation should do today and what solutions should be explored for tomorrow. The committee examines the currently used "once-through" fuel cycle versus different alternatives of separations and transmutation technology systems, by which hazardous radionuclides are converted to nuclides that are either stable or radioactive with short half-lives. The volume provides detailed findings and conclusions about the status and feasibility of plutonium extraction and more advanced separations technologies, as well as three principal transmutation concepts for commercial reactor spent fuel. The book discusses nuclear proliferation; the U.S. nuclear regulatory structure; issues of health, safety and transportation; the proposed sale of electrical energy as a means of paying for the transmutation system; and other key issues.
Author: International Atomic Energy Agency Publisher: ISBN: 9789201253101 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 639
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This publication reports on the results of a coordinated research project on advances in high temperature gas cooled reactor (HTGR) fuel technology and describes the findings of research activities on coated particle developments. These comprise two specific benchmark exercises with the application of HTGR fuel performance and fission product release codes, which helped compare the quality and validity of the computer models against experimental data. The project participants also examined techniques for fuel characterization and advanced quality assessment/quality control. The key exercise included a round-robin experimental study on the measurements of fuel kernel and particle coating properties of recent Korean, South African and US coated particle productions applying the respective qualification measures of each participating Member State. The summary report documents the results and conclusions achieved by the project and underlines the added value to contemporary knowledge on HTGR fuel.
Author: Battelle Memorial Institute. Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation Publisher: ISBN: Category : Radioactive waste disposal Languages : en Pages : 132
Author: Battelle Memorial Institute. Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation. Library Publisher: ISBN: Category : Radioactive waste disposal Languages : en Pages : 132
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Author: Bechtel National
Author: Bechtel National
Author: Bechtel National
Author: Bechtel National
Author: National Research Council
Author: Bechtel National
Author: International Atomic Energy Agency
Author: Battelle Memorial Institute. Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation
Author: Battelle Memorial Institute. Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation. Library