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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
F. A. Saulino, J. C. Andersen, K. M. Taylor
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 17 | Number 1 | September 1963 | Pages 75-81
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE63-A17212
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The outstanding features of the facility are its compactness, reliability, low operating cost and the unusually high purity of the atmosphere in the helium glove boxes (2–3 ppm oxygen and less than 1 ppm water vapor). The high purity helium atmosphere results from the leak tightness of the system and the highly effective zirconium-titanium alloy getter system. In addition to the usual health and safety precautions, possible trouble areas are continuously monitored by an extensive alarm system.