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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).”
Arthur A. Bauer
Nuclear Technology | Volume 14 | Number 1 | April 1972 | Pages 65-70
Technical Paper | Session on Physics of Nuclear Materials Safeguards / Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31099
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A fuel-specimen model is developed to describe the diametral swelling behavior of W-Re clad, oxide fuel specimens irradiated at a clad surface temperature in excess of 1200°C. The model is based on experimental observations at elevated fuel temperatures that fission-gas bubbles form to expand the fuel but that bubble and lenticular void movement, as a result of vaporphase transport, provide a mechanism for redensifying the fuel so that swelling is a continuous steady-state process. Good agreement with experimentally measured diametral changes is obtained by application of the model.