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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. Laggiard, J. Runkel, D. Stegemann
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 120 | Number 2 | June 1995 | Pages 124-135
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE95-A24113
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The vibration and impacting of an instrument tube against the surrounding fuel boxes in a boiling water reactor (BWR) was studied by means of a three-dimensional, one-modal model. The transfer of the tube displacements to neutron fluctuations of the fission chamber-instrument tube assemblies was calculated by employing the adjoint function technique and utilizing a two-dimensional, two-group diffusion theory. The results were used to interpret the particular measured noise spectra of an instrument tube in the 1300-MW Gundremmingen C BWR. The root-mean-square of the displacements was estimated from the experimental neutron data.