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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
J. T. A. Roberts, B. J. Wrona, D. Fischer, J. A. Buzzell
Nuclear Technology | Volume 27 | Number 2 | October 1975 | Pages 267-272
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24294
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Modifications to the direct electrical heating apparatus have enabled it to be used successfully to heat irradiated mixed-oxide fuel pellets to melting in an α-γ hot cell. For this purpose, a fuel extrusion device was constructed to remove irradiated fuel from its cladding. Proof-testing was successfully conducted using two UO2-20 wt% PuO2 pellets irradiated in the Experimental Breeder Reactor II to 3.25 at.% burnup at ∼ 3.05 kW/m (∼10 kW/ft). The sequence of events leading to fuel failure—namely, melting, swelling, and fragmentation—agree with observations from inreactor accident simulations.