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Fuel Cycle & Waste Management
Devoted to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle including waste management, worldwide. Division specific areas of interest and involvement include uranium conversion and enrichment; fuel fabrication, management (in-core and ex-core) and recycle; transportation; safeguards; high-level, low-level and mixed waste management and disposal; public policy and program management; decontamination and decommissioning environmental restoration; and excess weapons materials disposition.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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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.
B. W. Veal, D. J. Lam, A. P. Paulikas, D. P. Karim
Nuclear Technology | Volume 51 | Number 2 | December 1980 | Pages 136-142
Technical Paper | Argonne National Laboratory Specialists’ Workshop on Basic Research Needs for Nuclear Waste Management / Radioactive Waste | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32592
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X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy can be applied to the study of bonding properties of metal oxides in silicate glasses and to the analysis of water-leached glass surfaces. The addition of CaO to Na2O-2SiO2 results in a decrease in the number of bridging oxygen atoms in the glass matrix as monitored by oxygen 1s peak intensities. In sodium disilicate glasses containing dissolved uranium, significantly different leaching behavior can occur, depending on the oxidation state of the uraniumions.