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OECD NEA meeting focuses on irradiation experiments
Members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) joint undertaking gathered from September 29 to October 3 in Ketchum, Idaho, for the technical advisory group and governing board meetings hosted by Idaho National Laboratory. The FIDES-II Framework aims to ensure and foster competences in experimental nuclear fuel and structural materials in-reactor experiments through a diverse set of Joint Experimental Programs (JEEPs).
Stanley T. Kosiewicz
Nuclear Technology | Volume 54 | Number 1 | July 1981 | Pages 92-99
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT81-A32756
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Gas generation rates from the alpha radiolysis of typical organic transuranic wastes are affected by the organic matrix, dose rate, dose, and temperature. The matrices under test were cellulosics, plastics, and rubber materials. Gas generation rates from cellulosics were found to be dose-rate independent and dose dependent. Increasing the temperature increased the rate of gas generation for cellulosics.
