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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.
Joel H. Ferziger, George S. C. Wang, P. F. Zweifel
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 10 | Number 3 | July 1961 | Pages 285-294
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE61-A25972
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An adaptation of Behrens' Method to the calculation of diffusion lengths in heterogeneous media is given. In all cases, the diffusion length in a medium containing absorbing lumps can be related to the self-shielding factor of the lumps. Calculations are presented only for the simplest case given but the results display considerable disagreement with a frequently used formula. On grounds which are mainly intuitive, it is believed that this method is more accurate, particularly for large moderator to absorber ratio. Final conclusions cannot be drawn, however, until more experimental data become available.