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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
Prakash B. Chaudhary, Manohar G. Bhide
Nuclear Technology | Volume 98 | Number 2 | May 1992 | Pages 242-244
Technical Note | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34680
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It was earlier shown theoretically that the radioactivity released by spent-fuel elements into storage pool water is predominantly carried by positive ions. A new decontamination method is described in which freshly contaminated metallic surfaces are decontaminated electrochemically, resulting in smooth, shiny surfaces. This method, which uses current densities of ∼15 μ A/cm1, is quantitatively and qualitatively different from earlier electrochemical procedures, where higher current densities of the order of milliamperes per square centimetre or even amperes per square centimetre were used.