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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.
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P.L. Carconi, S. Casadio, A. Moauro
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 775-780
Material Properties | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29842
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Measurements of impurities and tritium releasing characteristics of Lithium Aluminate and Zirconate, prepared by ENEA in the frame of the European Program on Fusion Technology, have been performed, respectively, by neutron activation analysis (NAA) and “out of pile” annealing. The resulting tritium removing rate from the ceramics was interpreted in terms of surface desorption kinetics. With reference purge gas (He + 0.1% H2), the predominant form of tritium, released by lithium aluminate is HT/T2, HTO/T2O by lithium zirconate. The latter was found to have a better performance in tritium release than aluminate. The presence of moisture was found to catalyse the tritium release at lower temperatures.
