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DOE on track to deliver high-burnup SNF to Idaho by 2027
The Department of Energy said it anticipated delivering a research cask of high-burnup spent nuclear fuel from Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia to Idaho National Laboratory by fall 2027. The planned shipment is part of the High Burnup Dry Storage Research Project being conducted by the DOE with the Electric Power Research Institute.
As preparations continue, the DOE said it is working closely with federal agencies as well as tribal and state governments along potential transportation routes to ensure safety, transparency, and readiness every step of the way.
Watch the DOE’s latest video outlining the project here.
Kazuaki Miyamoto, Kazunori Takahashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 63 | Number 1 | May 2013 | Pages 401-403
doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A16968
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Two-dimensional periodic plasma structure of a density above 1×1010 cm-3 is produced by a 400 kHz capacitively-coupled discharge, where the discharge is operated at ~10 Pascal argon. A living electrode, which is covered with a periodically hollowed insulator, is powered from a 400 kHz power supply through an impedance matching circuit. The net power is increased up to 450 W in the present experiments. The Langmuir probe diagnosis shows the formation of the spatially periodic modulation of the plasma density, where the densities at the peak and trough in the structure are 1.8×1010 cm-3 and 1×1010 cm-3 for 180 W rf power. The density ratio at the peak and trough positions in the structure is unchanged by the rf power.