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IAEA report confirms safety of discharged Fukushima water
An International Atomic Energy Agency task force has confirmed that the discharge of treated water from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is proceeding in line with international safety standards. The task force’s findings were published in the agency’s fourth report since Tokyo Electric Power Company began discharging Fukushima’s treated and diluted water in August 2023.
More information can be found on the IAEA’s Fukushima Daiichi ALPS Treated Water Discharge web page.
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.
