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DOE on track to deliver high-burnup SNF to Idaho by 2027
The Department of Energy said it anticipated delivering a research cask of high-burnup spent nuclear fuel from Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia to Idaho National Laboratory by fall 2027. The planned shipment is part of the High Burnup Dry Storage Research Project being conducted by the DOE with the Electric Power Research Institute.
As preparations continue, the DOE said it is working closely with federal agencies as well as tribal and state governments along potential transportation routes to ensure safety, transparency, and readiness every step of the way.
Watch the DOE’s latest video outlining the project here.
E. D. Fredrickson, M. C. Zarnstorff, E. A. Lazarus
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | February 2007 | Pages 232-237
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1301
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Predictive simulations of target plasmas for the National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX) were performed as part of the design effort. The resistive stability of these simulated target plasmas was studied using a quasi-cylindrical ' stability code, as has been done with some success for W7-AS plasmas. The plasmas were found to be classically unstable to an m = 2, n = 1 tearing mode during the start-up, but the 2/1 saturated island size in the target equilibrium was small, <2%. Inclusion of neoclassical effects resulted in negligible island sizes throughout.