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Oklo completes end-to-end demonstration of advanced fuel recycling
Oklo Inc. has announced that it has completed the first end-to-end demonstration of its advanced fuel recycling process as part of an ongoing $5 million project in collaboration with Argonne and Idaho National Laboratories. Oklo’s goal: scaling up its fuel recycling capabilities to deploy a commercial-scale recycling facility that would increase advanced reactor fuel supplies and enhance fuel cost effectiveness for its planned sodium fast reactors.
Yoshiyuki Inagaki, Yoshiaki Miyamoto, Tamao Nakajima, Tsuyoshi Kozuma, Hajime Shoji
Nuclear Technology | Volume 104 | Number 1 | October 1993 | Pages 106-117
Technical Paper | Reactor Operation | doi.org/10.13182/NT93-A34873
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An experimental study is carried out to clarify the performance of an eddy current testing probe and probe-inserting equipment for the in-service inspection of the intermediate heat exchanger tubes of the High-Temperature Engineering Test Reactor. Artificial discontinuities are made with reference to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers standards for steam generator tubes in a light water reactor. It is confirmed that the probe can detect these discontinuities as well as smaller ones, such as a 0.5-mm-diam 100% through-wall hole and a 0.5-mm-wide groove, in a base-metal tube. For the welded joints, the back-excess weld metal is a main noise contributor, and a multiple-frequency method can remove the noise. The inspection performance, however, is lower. The probe-inserting equipment can smoothly insert and extract the probe. The winding of the cable causes a scattering in the probe traveling velocity values and a measurement error regarding the probe’s location in the tube.