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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).”
E. G. Schlechtendahl
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 41 | Number 1 | July 1970 | Pages 99-114
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE70-A20368
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Sodium boiling situations in a fast-reactor fuel element can be calculated with the BLOW-2 code from their initiation until fuel-pin failure occurs. The model, which is used, is substantiated by means of a theoretical analysis of the cause of the typical piston-type bubble generation, and it is checked against water and sodium tests. Typical examples of sodium boiling incidents are given. The probability of occurrence of severe nuclear excursions generated by sodium boiling is calculated.