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Thermal Hydraulics
The division provides a forum for focused technical dialogue on thermal hydraulic technology in the nuclear industry. Specifically, this will include heat transfer and fluid mechanics involved in the utilization of nuclear energy. It is intended to attract the highest quality of theoretical and experimental work to ANS, including research on basic phenomena and application to nuclear system design.
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Utility Working Conference and Vendor Technology Expo (UWC 2024)
August 4–7, 2024
Marco Island, FL|JW Marriott Marco Island
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The Standards Committee is responsible for the development and maintenance of voluntary consensus standards that address the design, analysis, and operation of components, systems, and facilities related to the application of nuclear science and technology. Find out What’s New, check out the Standards Store, or Get Involved today!
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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.
G. D. Del Cul, William D. Bostick
Nuclear Technology | Volume 109 | Number 1 | January 1995 | Pages 161-162
Technical Note | Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT95-A35076
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Packed-column experiments with iron dust of 40 to 60 mesh (Fisher 1–57) showed an excellent uptake of pertechnetate ions from alkaline (pH ∼ 8.5) high-nitrate (100 to 250 g/ℓ) solutions at flow rates measured in bed volumes (BVs) of between 0.05 and 0.15 BV/min. The columns worked well until they became plugged by rusting after several hundred bed volumes of solution were flowed through (330 to 900 BV). Similar tests using organic ion-exchange resins, such as Dowex SRB-OH and Reillex HP and Reillex HPQ, and the same alkaline high-nitrate solutions showed breakthroughs after 20 to 50 BV were passed.
