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2024: The Year in Nuclear—July through September
Another calendar year has passed. Before heading too far into 2025, let’s look back at what happened in 2024 in the nuclear community. In today's post, compiled from Nuclear News and Nuclear Newswire are what we feel are the top nuclear news stories from July through September 2024.
Stay tuned for the top stories from the rest of the past year.
Hisashi Nakamura, Toshimasa Narazaki, Satoshi Yanagihara
Nuclear Technology | Volume 86 | Number 2 | August 1989 | Pages 168-178
Technical Paper | Decontamination and Decommissioning / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34267
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The decommissioning program of the Japan Power Demonstration Reactor (JPDR) is under way. For the purpose of dismantling the biological shield of the JPDR, a diamond sawing and coring technique and an abrasive-water jet cutting technique have been developed. In the technical development, the influence of various factors on the cutting performance and the characteristics of secondary products were investigated. As a result, remote cutting systems that incorporated these techniques were fabricated for the dismantlement of the highly activated region of the biological shield.
