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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
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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.
K. J. Hofstetter, W. B. Stroube, Jr.,+ B. C. Henderson, G. A. Huff
Nuclear Technology | Volume 49 | Number 3 | August 1980 | Pages 443-457
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A17692
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The on-line and process radiation monitoring capability at the Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant has been evaluated. Experiments have been performed to test the monitors’ capability to assay plant streams. Several of the monitors have been subjected to evaluation experiments in the laboratory to determine sensitivity, accuracy, reliability, and overall system performance. The incorporation of many of these monitors into a real-time or near-real-time material control system is under way. Many of the monitors have been tested for operability in situ and the results of these tests indicate satisfactory performance over the intended sensitivity ranges. An effort is under way to develop new nondestructive assay techniques for on-line monitoring of special nuclear materials present in the process streams of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant.