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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.
C. Lepscky, P. L. Rotoloni, G. Testa, G. Trezza
Nuclear Technology | Volume 9 | Number 4 | October 1970 | Pages 536-549
Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT70-A28764
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Uranium-plutonium mixed oxide sol-gel fuel is attracting interest as a promising nuclear material for fast reactor fuel subassemblies. However, this material, if employed for commercial fuel production particularly in the fast reactor area, must be extensively tested both inpile and out-of-pile. For this purpose, some irradiation tests have been carried out by CNEN in the RS-1 swimming pool reactor in Italy and in the Halden BHWR in Norway under the Plutonium Program and the Fast Reactor Program. The results obtained show: in-reactor homogenization of plutonium in the UO2 matrix, increase of the integral of conductivity after in-pile sintering process has taken place, and cladding attack caused by impurities originally present in the fuel particles.