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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.
Mildred J. Bradley, Leslie M. Ferris
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 8 | Number 5 | November 1960 | Pages 432-436
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A25825
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A grind-leach method for the recovery of uranium from high-density graphite fuel elements containing greater than 5 weight per cent uranium has been developed on a laboratory scale as a head-end treatment for standard tributyl phosphate solvent extraction processes. With fuel ground to −16 mesh, greater than 99.8% of the uranium can be recovered by leaching twice with boiling 15.8 M nitric acid. Uranium recoveries were lower with less concentrated acid, and with fuel of larger particle size or lower uranium concentration. The grind-leach method is not applicable to fuels containing less than 3% uranium. Leaching −16+30 mesh samples of a fuel containing 1.5% uranium and 7.2% thorium with either boiling 15.8 M nitric acid or 15.8 M nitric acid−0.04 M sodium fluoride, resulted in uranium and thorium recoveries of 90 and 86%, respectively.