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Bipartisan nuclear waste bill introduced in U.S. House
U.S. representatives Mike Levin (D., Calif.) and August Pfluger (R., Texas) have introduced the bipartisan Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2024, which would establish an independent agency to manage the country’s nuclear waste.
In addition to establishing a new, single-purpose administration to manage the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, the bill would direct a consent-based siting process for nuclear waste facilities and ensure reliable funding for managing nuclear waste by providing access to the Nuclear Waste Fund. According to Pfluger and Levin, the bill’s provisions are in line with recommendations from the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future.
Jack L. Collins, Morris F. Osborne, Richard A. Lorenz, Anthony P. Malinauskas
Nuclear Technology | Volume 81 | Number 1 | April 1988 | Pages 78-94
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A34080
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The release behavior of the fission products iodine and cesium has been characterized in fission product release tests that have been conducted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with highly irradiated, light water reactor fuel segments under conditions simulating severe accidents. The chemical forms of the fission products depended on the composition of the carrier gases used in the tests. In purified helium or steam-helium-hydrogen atmospheres, the behavior of the released iodine was characteristic of cesium iodide, whereas that of the cesium, which was not associated with cesium iodide, was characteristic of cesium oxide in the helium atmosphere and of cesium hydroxide in the steam-helium-hydrogen atmosphere. In the dry-air tests, iodine appeared to be in elemental form and cesium in the oxide form. In the steam-helium-hydrogen tests, the released cesium (other than CsI) significantly reacted with and was retained by hot oxidized stainless steel, zirconia, and silica surfaces. In contrast, cesium iodide appeared to be unaffected by these surfaces.
