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DOE on track to deliver high-burnup SNF to Idaho by 2027
The Department of Energy said it anticipated delivering a research cask of high-burnup spent nuclear fuel from Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia to Idaho National Laboratory by fall 2027. The planned shipment is part of the High Burnup Dry Storage Research Project being conducted by the DOE with the Electric Power Research Institute.
As preparations continue, the DOE said it is working closely with federal agencies as well as tribal and state governments along potential transportation routes to ensure safety, transparency, and readiness every step of the way.
Watch the DOE’s latest video outlining the project here.
Louis B. Freeman, Herbert C. Hecker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1982 | Pages 338-341
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A21437
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In a thorium-fueled reactor, the conversion of 232Th to 233U involves the intermediate nuclide 233Pa. This isotope has a significant reactivity effect in any thorium reactor, especially one with an important epithermal flux component. The light water breeder reactor, operating in the Shippingport atomic power station, is a 233U-Th reactor with about half the power produced at energies above thermal. The reactivity effect of full-power equilibrium 233Pa has been inferred from critical position measurements and control element reactivity worths to be ∼2.5% Δρ in this reactor, confirming calculational predictions.
