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September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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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).”
Richard M. Bidwell, Walter R. Wykoff
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 1 | Number 6 | December 1956 | Pages 443-451
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE56-A18459
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The Parasite Reactor is a 1-liter pressure bomb for phase studies under irradiation at temperatures and pressures up to at least 400°C and 5000 psi. Provision was made for sampling of solid, liquid, and gas phases for analysis. Power output was measured. Yields of radiolytic gases were calculated. It was established that uranyl nitrate solutions are sufficiently stable up to 248°C to be used for a proposed high-pressure Water Boiler reactor.