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November 9–12, 2025
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At the Idaho National Laboratory Hot Fuel Examination Facility, containment box operator Jake Maupin moves a manipulator arm into position around a pencil-thin nuclear fuel rod. He is preparing for a procedure that he and his colleagues have practiced repeatedly in anticipation of this moment in the hot cell.
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An analog computer was developed to measure the safety factor against film-boiling burnout of reactor fuel surfaces. The instrument was used at the Savannah River Plant as an aid in manual control of power in one heavy-water-cooled and -moderated production reactor which operated with a specific power of over 220 kW/g of 235U and at neutron flux levels up to 6 × 1015 n/(cm2 sec).
