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Nuclear waste: Trying again, with an approach that is flexible and vague
The Department of Energy has started over on the quest for a place to store used fuel. Its new goal, it says, is to foster a national conversation (although this might better be described as many local conversations) about a national problem that can only be solved at the local level with a “consent-based” approach. And while the department is touting the various milestones it has already reached on the way to an interim repository, the program is structured in a way that means its success will not be measurable for years.
Stephen E. Binney, Richard D. Harris
Nuclear Technology | Volume 79 | Number 3 | December 1987 | Pages 322-327
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT87-A34021
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The RIBD code results and calculated detector pulse-height distributions have been used to assess the capabilities of gamma-ray spectrometry as applied to the measurement of reactor coolant activity in the event of a severe fuel failure in a nuclear power plant. The associated interference effects of nearby photopeaks and the Compton continuum of higher energy gamma rays were considered in this assessment. Key radionuclides representative of differing degrees of fuel damage have been found to be measurable under severe accident conditions.
