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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.
F. A. Rough, A. W. Hare, R. B. Price, S. Alfant
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 7 | Number 2 | February 1960 | Pages 111-121
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE60-A29079
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Uranium carbide containing about 5.2 w/o carbon has been irradiated to nominal burnups of 1000 and 5000 Mwd/ton of carbide. The results are generally encouraging, although some cracking has been observed. The observed density decreases were about the same at 1000 and 5000 Mwd/ton irradiations, being 0.7 to 2.5 and 0.6 to 2.5% respectively. The problems and questions raised by these irradiations are discussed. Additional irradiations are planned to study the effects of composition and of burnups to 15,000 Mwd/ton of carbide.
