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Siting of Canadian repository gets support of tribal nation
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) announced that Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation has indicated its willingness to support moving forward to the next phase of the site selection process to host a deep geological repository for Canada’s spent nuclear fuel.
Masoomeh Ghasemi, Jaeyoo Choi, Hyun-Goo Kang, Hyunchul Ju
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 76 | Number 4 | May 2020 | Pages 404-414
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2020.1712994
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of design parameters for the scale-up of the depleted uranium (DU) bed. The actual DU bed chosen for this study has a DU loading of 1.86 kg for a tritium capacity of 70 g and is cylindrical in shape and equipped with copper foam to enhance internal heat transfer. Based on the reference DU bed geometry, three different scale-up bed geometries to increase the amount of DU loading up to 9.3 kg were designed under different aspect ratios for comparison purposes and simulated using a three-dimensional transient DU hydride model developed in our previous studies. The simulation results are compared in terms of the evolution of the DU hydride temperature and H/U atomic ratio during the DU hydriding process. This study helps to identify key design parameters (e.g., it is critical to scale up the DU bed geometry).