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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
Tetsuya Mouri, Kazuya Ohgama, Taira Hazama
Nuclear Technology | Volume 209 | Number 7 | July 2023 | Pages 1008-1023
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2181044
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In this study, the sodium radioactivity of 24Na and 22Na in the primary system measured in the prototype fast breeder reactor Monju was evaluated, and the reliability of the measurements and calculations was examined. The calculated-to-experiment values and their uncertainties for 24Na and 22Na radioactivities were 0.97 to 1.07 and 8.1% to 11.0% and 1.03 to 1.16 and 23.3% to 24.1%, respectively, using the JENDL-4.0 nuclear data library. The 22Na radioactivity calculated with ENDF/B-VIII.0 was larger by 40% than those calculated with JENDL-4.0 and JEFF-3.3 due to the 23Na(n,2n) cross-section discrepancy. The importance of the 22Na neutron capture effect is also confirmed herein for the accurate evaluation of the 22Na radioactivity. The experimental data were judged to be useful for validating the calculation method for improving the reliability of future designs of sodium-cooled fast reactors.