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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.
Tachimori Ohba, Satsuharu Takimoto, Yoshio Kitada, Tomio Tsunoda, Akira Kobayashi, Kenji Ishida
Nuclear Technology | Volume 56 | Number 3 | March 1982 | Pages 580-590
Technical Paper | Radiation Biology and Environment | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A32917
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The environmental monitoring system for radiation exposure due to light water reactor (LWR) nuclear power plant plume is described. This system, employing a NaI(Tl) scintillation detector with an exposure rate conversion circuit, has the capability of highly accurate evaluation of radiation exposure due to an LWR plume with 0.15 million R/yr (39 nC/kg.yr) overevaluation and 0.05 million R/yr (13 nC/kg.yr) underevaluation. Plume exposure is identified by combining the time variation property of the exposure rate with meteorological parameters. Outlines of the present system are described, including monitoring results obtained over a 98-day period by tentative system at an LWR site boundary.
