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Fabrication milestone for INL’s MARVEL microreactor
A team from Idaho National Laboratory and the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) recently visited Carolina Fabricators Inc. (CFI), in West Columbia, S.C., to launch the fabrication process for the primary coolant system of the MARVEL microreactor. Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA), which manages INL, awarded the CFI contract in January.
Reiner Papp, Herbert Loser
Nuclear Technology | Volume 73 | Number 2 | May 1986 | Pages 228-235
Technical Paper | Performance of Borosilicate Glass High-Level Waste Forms in Disposal System / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT86-A33787
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Within the framework of the fuel cycle evaluation that has been conducted between 1981 and 1985 by Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center in the Federal Republic of Germany, radiological safety has been considered an essential assessment criterion. The collective doses from normal operation turned out to exceed markedly the accidental doses associated with all stations at the back end of the fuel cycles. Both occupational and nonoccupational doses in the fuel cycle based on fuel reprocessing are higher than those from the once-through cycle, but radiological exposure of the population consists mainly of small individual doses that are only a small fraction of the doses due to natural background radiation.