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Nuclear supply chain innovation and collaboration: Keeping the nuclear supply chain viable through change
The next nuclear renaissance may be upon us, but with it comes a perfect storm. The industry is unprepared for a surge in demand for goods and services from both the existing light water fleet and the next generation of reactors. We are currently teetering on the edge of severe supply chain issues, but if the nuclear industry can understand the sources of our challenges, we can mitigate them.
Takeshi Kase, Akira Yamadera, Takashi Nakamura, Seiichi Shibata, Ichiro Fujiwara
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 111 | Number 4 | August 1992 | Pages 368-378
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE92-A15484
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
As a basic study of photonuclear transmutation of actinides in high-level radioactive wastes using electron-produced bremsstrahlung, the absolute yields of cumulative mass distributions and the transmutation rates of235U, 238U, 237Np, and 239Pu by photofission reactions induced by 20-, 30-, and 60-MeV bremsstrahlung were measured. The results of mass yield distributions and transmutation yields agree well with other experimental results and those calculated using photofission cross sections, respectively. The transmutation efficiency per electron increases about one order of magnitude with electron energy from 20 to 60 MeV.
