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BWXT will scout potential TRISO fuel production sites in Wyoming
BWX Technologies Inc. announced today that its Advanced Technologies subsidiary has signed a cooperation agreement with the state of Wyoming to evaluate locations and requirements for siting a potential new TRISO nuclear fuel fabrication facility in the state.
J. R. Phillips, T. K. Marshall
Nuclear Technology | Volume 36 | Number 2 | December 1977 | Pages 222-228
Technical Paper | International Safeguard / Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31929
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A precision gamma-scanning system was applied to the nondestructive determination of the isotopic distributions of 103Ru and 106Ru in two failed (U,Pu)O2 fuel pins irradiated in the Experimental Breeder Reactor II. Significant differences in the two distributions were measured that were related to the half-lives of the two ruthenium isotopes. The two distributions can be used to determine the relative times at which the ruthenium deposits were formed within the fuel material. This information may be used to determine nondestructively the changes within the central void region over a period of several irradiation cycles.
