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RP3C Community of Practice’s fifth anniversary
In February, the Community of Practice (CoP) webinar series, hosted by the American Nuclear Society Standards Board’s Risk-informed, Performance-based Principles and Policies Committee (RP3C), celebrated its fifth anniversary. Like so many online events, these CoPs brought people together at a time when interacting with others became challenging in early 2020. Since the kickoff CoP, which highlighted the impact that systems engineering has on the design of NuScale’s small modular reactor, the last Friday of most months has featured a new speaker leading a discussion on the use of risk-informed, performance-based (RIPB) thinking in the nuclear industry. Providing a venue to convene for people within ANS and those who found their way online by another route, CoPs are an opportunity for the community to receive answers to their burning questions about the subject at hand. With 50–100 active online participants most months, the conversation is always lively, and knowledge flows freely.
Matti Valkiainen, Mikko Nykyri
Nuclear Technology | Volume 58 | Number 2 | August 1982 | Pages 248-255
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A32936
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Incineration of ion-exchange resins in a fluidized bed was studied on the pilot plant scale. Granular resins were incinerated mostly in the dry form, while powdered resins were incinerated in an ethanol-water mixture. Incineration converts the organic resin into inert oxide material, which can be immobilized for instance with cement. The weight of the ash was 1 to 20% and the volume 2 to 30% of the original resins, which contained 15 to 25% moisture. When immobilized with cement the volume of the ash-concrete is 4 to 22% of the concrete of equal compressive strength acquired by direct solidification. The absorption of cesium and cobalt in various bed materials was studied by means of inactive tracer materials. Biotite and chamotte absorbed significantly, but this absorption does not drastically help on the off-gas side. The sintering of the bed materials in the presence of sodium was studied. Corundum, chamotte, and biotite have a safety limit of 5% sodium of the bed’s weight at 850°C.