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The mission of the Decommissioning and Environmental Sciences (DES) Division is to promote the development and use of those skills and technologies associated with the use of nuclear energy and the optimal management and stewardship of the environment, sustainable development, decommissioning, remediation, reutilization, and long-term surveillance and maintenance of nuclear-related installations, and sites. The target audience for this effort is the membership of the Division, the Society, and the public at large.
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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.
Anne C. Harnden-Gillis, Brent J. Lewis, William S. Andrews, Peter L. Purdy, Morris F. Osborne, Richard A. Lorenz
Nuclear Technology | Volume 109 | Number 1 | January 1995 | Pages 39-53
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT95-A35067
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Several empirically based models of fission product release, recently developed at various laboratories for severe reactor accident conditions, have been compared with the measured cesium release from light water reactor fuel in the VI series of experiments performed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The models under consideration treat the underlying process of release by first-order kinetics or by classical diffusion theory. In addition, a state-of-the-art approach using an artificial neural network is evaluated.