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Leading the charge: INL’s role in advancing HALEU production
Idaho National Laboratory is playing a key role in helping the U.S. Department of Energy meet near-term needs by recovering HALEU from federal inventories, providing critical support to help lay the foundation for a future commercial HALEU supply chain. INL also supports coordination of broader DOE efforts, from material recovery at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to commercial enrichment initiatives.
Robert E. Rothe, Inki Oh
Nuclear Technology | Volume 41 | Number 2 | December 1978 | Pages 207-225
Technical Paper | Extraction of Energy From Nuclear Fuels Without Reprocessing to Separate Plutonium / Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A32106
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Seventy-six benchmark critical conditions are reported. Both material and geometry properties are so well determined as to reduce greatly any contribution to a theoretical/experimental discrepancy attributable to the experiment. The program uses uranyl nitrate solution with the uranium enriched to 93.17% 235U. The concentration ranges from 54.89 to 369.96 g U/ℓ Unreflected experiments are reported, as well as measurements within thick-walled cubical reflector shells composed of such common materials as concrete and plastic. For experiments using a single tank, the diameter of the tank ranged from 27.88 to 50.69 cm, and arrays of up to 16 cylinders have containers of two diameters: 16.12 and 21.12 cm. Containers composed of aluminum or stainless steel are studied. For all these parameters, the critical heights range from 17.13 to 110.20 cm.