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Matt Wald on nuclear power
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Matt Wald, an independent energy analyst and a writer who contributes to the Breakthrough Institute and has written feature articles for Nuclear News, recently shared his nuclear perspectives in a Zoom talk with Friends of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering ORNL’s scientific goals.
Missed opportunity: Wald, a former reporter for The New York Times and a former policy analyst for the Nuclear Energy Institute, feels that the nuclear industry and community “have committed industrial sin. Nuclear suffered through a long drought, and now it sees terrific demand for its product, and it’s not ready to deliver the needed electricity.”
M. Krumpelt, J. J. Heiberger, V. A. Maroni, M. J. Steindler
Nuclear Technology | Volume 15 | Number 3 | September 1972 | Pages 391-395
Technical Paper | Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A16036
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The reaction of elemental iodine with liquid zinc and the reaction of Znl2 with molten chloride salt have been studied. These reactions, which occur when fission product iodine is released into a zinc-salt melt during the pyrochemical decladding of fuel elements, appear to be very rapid. The mechanism is postulated to include conversion of zinc iodide to a zinc chloride complex. The presence of zinc chloride in the melt has been verified by Raman spectroscopy. The results of laboratoryscale experiments suggest that the process for decladding LMFBR fuels in a zincsalt melt may be capable of effectively retaining fission product iodine in an easily disposable form.
