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Leak-tightness test on deck for SRS mega unit
The Savannah River Site in South Carolina will begin a leak-tightness test to qualify the megavolume Saltstone Disposal Unit (SDU) 10 to store up to 33 million gallons of solidified, decontaminated salt solution produced at the site.
P. E. Coudron, R. P. Matsen, L. C. Schmid
Nuclear Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | August 1972 | Pages 229-238
Technical Paper | Plutonium Utilization in Commercial Power Reactors / Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31147
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Isotopic data obtained from the destructive analysis of UO2-6.6 wt% PuO2 rods irradiated in Core II of the Saxton reactor have been used to derive ratios of effective cross sections. Two sets of cross-section ratios, corresponding to data from regions of the core with different neutron spectra, have been developed. Selected cross-section ratios from the Saxton data were compared with those obtained from other reactors.
