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ANS and the U.K.’s NI announce reciprocal membership agreement
With President Trump on a state visit to the U.K., in part to sign a landmark new agreement on U.S.-U.K. nuclear collaboration, a flurry of transatlantic partnerships and deals bridging the countries’ nuclear sectors have been announced.
The American Nuclear Society is taking an active role in this bridge-building by forming a reciprocal membership agreement with the U.K.’s Nuclear Institute.
Leonardo Romero, Luis Moreno, Ivars Neretnieks
Nuclear Technology | Volume 110 | Number 2 | May 1995 | Pages 238-249
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT95-A35121
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The evolution and formation of a redox front in the near field of a repository for high-level nuclear waste is modeled, considering the effect of a time-dependent source term of the oxidizing species produced by radiolysis of the water entering the canister. The transport of oxidants in the clay surrounding the canister occurs by diffusion. In the rock, the transport of oxidants is modeled as occurring through fractures, with diffusion into the rock matrix. The results show that it is not probable that the redox front will ever move past the bentonite. If it does, the tips of the redox front may move <100 m over a million year period in a channel with a high flow rate.
