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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.
W. A. Reardon, H. H. Hummel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 3 | Number 2 | February 1958 | Pages 201-213
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE58-A25461
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The failure to obtain agreement between the calculated and measured reflector savings in the Fast Exponential Experiment led to a study of the processes involved in obtaining spectral equilibrium in small, highly enriched systems. It was shown that the length of the equilibrium region was a sensitive function of the pedestal thickness and could be optimized for this assembly. Factors which were found to be significant are, as expected, the geometry and the spectrum of the source. Both the experimental results and the theoretically derived results are presented. The methods of collecting data and the methods of data analyses which proved most fruitful are also presented.