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DOE on track to deliver high-burnup SNF to Idaho by 2027
The Department of Energy said it anticipated delivering a research cask of high-burnup spent nuclear fuel from Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia to Idaho National Laboratory by fall 2027. The planned shipment is part of the High Burnup Dry Storage Research Project being conducted by the DOE with the Electric Power Research Institute.
As preparations continue, the DOE said it is working closely with federal agencies as well as tribal and state governments along potential transportation routes to ensure safety, transparency, and readiness every step of the way.
Watch the DOE’s latest video outlining the project here.
K. L. Merkle
Nuclear Technology | Volume 22 | Number 1 | April 1974 | Pages 66-78
Technical Paper | Fusion Reactor Materials / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT74-A16275
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Using transmission electron microscopy, 14-MeV damage has been investigated in gold. The sites of energetic displacement cascades are visible because of the presence of vacancy clusters formed by the collapse or rearrangement of vacancies within the depleted zones. A strong tendency toward subcascade formation has been found in the 14-MeV neutron-induced cascades. On the average, 1.8 clusters are formed per cascade. Individual cascades with as many as six subcascades have been found. The number densities of clusters and cascades are proportional to the fluence. The cross section for the formation of visible cascades is σc = 3.3 × 10-24 cm2. It can be shown that recoils from elastic neutron-scattering events can account for <20% of the visible cascades. The cross section corresponding to the balance of the observed cascades is, within experimental error, equal to the nonelastic neutron-scattering cross section. This indicates that all nonelastic scattering events lead to the formation of a visible cascade. We find quantitative agreement with what is expected from heavy-ion bombardments regarding the cross sections involved; however, estimates of the average cascade energy in the 14-MeV neutron bombardments are somewhat higher than expected.