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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.
Wim J. Soppe, Jan Prij
Nuclear Technology | Volume 107 | Number 3 | September 1994 | Pages 243-253
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT94-A35005
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In many countries rock salt formations are candidates to host nuclear waste repositories. One of the aspects that needs careful consideration before such a repository can be put into operation is the formation of radiation damage in the salt. A model has been developed that provides a fundamental understanding of the buildup of radiation damage in NaCl. This model is based on kinetic rate reactions and takes into account the effect of impurities and the colloid nucleation stage on the growth of metallic sodium colloids. With this model, we have calculated the amounts of NaCl that can be converted into metallic sodium and molecular Cl2 for various options for repository design and intermediate storage times. It is shown that the concentrations of these defect aggregates, even very close to the high-level radioactive waste containers with steel walls 5 mm-thick, will be limited to a few mole percent.
