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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).”
B. F. Rubin, T. J. Black, W. K. Appleby, J. D. Stephen, R. F. Hilbert
Nuclear Technology | Volume 16 | Number 1 | October 1972 | Pages 89-99
Technical Paper | Reactor Materials Performance / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT72-A31178
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Experimental determinations of cladding plastic deformation in (U,Pu)O2 fuel rods, clad with annealed Type 316 stainless steel and irradiated in EBR-II, indicate that fuel-cladding mechanical interaction takes place between ∼3 and 8 at.% burnup. At higher burnups, the cladding swelling rate increases markedly resulting in no further fuel-induced plastic deformation. The maximum cladding plastic strain exhibited by several annealed Type 316 stainless-steel-clad rods was 0.4%. Cladding plastic strain was found to be independent of smeared density in the range of 83 to 91% TD.
