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Bipartisan nuclear waste bill introduced in U.S. House
U.S. representatives Mike Levin (D., Calif.) and August Pfluger (R., Texas) have introduced the bipartisan Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2024, which would establish an independent agency to manage the country’s nuclear waste.
In addition to establishing a new, single-purpose administration to manage the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, the bill would direct a consent-based siting process for nuclear waste facilities and ensure reliable funding for managing nuclear waste by providing access to the Nuclear Waste Fund. According to Pfluger and Levin, the bill’s provisions are in line with recommendations from the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future.
Peter Hofmann, Siegfried J. L. Hagen, Gerhard Schanz, Alfred Skokan
Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 1 | August 1989 | Pages 146-186
Nuclear Safety | TMI-2: Materials Behavior / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT-TMI2-146
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Chemical interactions that may occur in a light water reactor fuel rod bundle containing Ag-In-Cd absorber rods or Al203/B4C burnable poison rods with increasing temperature up to the complete melting of the components and the reaction products formed are described. The kinetics of the most important chemical interactions is investigated and the results are described. In most cases, the reaction products have lower melting points or ranges than the original components. This results in a relocation of liquefied components, often far below their melting points. Three distinct temperature regimes exist in which liquid phases can form in the core in different large quantities and are described in detail. The phase relations in the important ternary U-Zr-0 system are extensively studied. The effect of steel constituents on the phase relations is also given. These considerations focus on pressurized water reactor conditions only.