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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. Oelkers, W. W. Weaver
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 68 | Number 3 | December 1978 | Pages 299-307
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27307
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Two unusual aspects of safety component operation—abnormal environmental conditions and aging—are combined analytically. The result is implemented in a computer code to quantify a safety system figure-of-merit. In conjunction with a probabilistic approach employing a specified risk criterion, the analytical method has been applied to a reactor protection system to determine a desired component-qualified age. The effect of a preventive renewal program as a substitute for or complement to an age qualification program is also discussed. Substantial economic benefits should be realized from the implementation of the analytical method.