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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).”
Dick Duffey, J. P. Balogna, Peter F. Wiggins
Nuclear Technology | Volume 27 | Number 3 | November 1975 | Pages 488-499
Technical Paper | Analysis | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24319
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The geothermal power effort to extract energy from hot dry rock will require careful water analysis to assist in plant control, to monitor corrosion and solid deposition, and perhaps to recover byproduct minerals. To demonstrate laboratory techniques and indicate plant feasibility, geothermal waters from the Valles Grande Coldera near Jemez Springs, New Mexico were irradiated in laboratory assemblies with neutrons from a 252Cf source and the high-energy capture gamma rays were measured. The results indicate that chlorine, sodium, calcium, and silicon (and probably other trace elements) can be determined and can help evaluate a geothermal area for power. Such nondestructive analytical techniques applied on-line in the plant, and, depending on neutrons and high-energy gamma rays penetrating thick metal pipes holding the water, should prove useful in the operational needs of the power plant.