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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.
Iván Lux
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 83 | Number 2 | February 1983 | Pages 198-205
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A18213
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Based on a simplified transport model, very simple and practical expressions are derived for approximately optimum regionwise importances in a Monte Carlo game with geometrical splitting. Minimum region dimensions where splitting is still efficient are also derived. The proposed expressions show good agreement with results from more advanced theories. Results of realistic Monte Carlo calculations back up the theoretical considerations.