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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
George E. Overturf III, Robert Cook, Stephan A. Letts, Steven R. Buckley, Michael R. McClellan, Diana Schroen-Carey
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 5 | December 1995 | Pages 1803-1808
Technical Paper | Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30416
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Resorcinol/formaldehyde (R/F) low-density foam making processes have been adapted to microencapsulation techniques. This has been done in an effort to make low density, low Z, transparent foam shells for use as cryogenic ICF targets. It was necessary to modify the normal R/F formulation and processing to accelerate the gelation time from tens of hours to less than one hour. Proper selection of the inner and outer oil phase solvents was critical for density matching and prevention of the dehydration of the gelling preform, respectively.