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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
John B. Burnham, Stanley M. Nealey, William S. Maynard
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 4 | April 1975 | Pages 675-681
Technical Paper | Reactor Siting | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A16125
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A methodology was developed for environmental decision making that combines societal and technical judgments. Eight factors that characterized the major economic and environmental impacts of nuclear power plant sitings were identified. These factors were used to construct “mini-environmental impact statements” for six siting alternatives. The impact statements formed the core of a survey questionnaire administered to three groups of respondents. Data analysis produced estimates of the relative importance of each factor. A procedure is described for using these estimates of importance as weighting factors to be applied to techno-economic scores. These latter scores would be generated by technical experts and would represent the actual or anticipated impact of a plant siting upon the eight factors.