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ANS joins others in seeking to discuss SNF/HLW impasse
The American Nuclear Society joined seven other organizations to send a letter to Energy Secretary Christopher Wright on July 8, asking to meet with him to discuss “the restoration of a highly functioning program to meet DOE’s legal responsibility to manage and dispose of the nation’s commercial and legacy defense spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW).”
A. C. Klein, D-K. Sze
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 10 | Number 3 | November 1986 | Pages 747-752
Fusion Materials—Radiation Effects and Activation | Proceedings of the Seveth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 1986) | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24830
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An assessment is made of the gamma radiation hazards likely to be found near a fusion reactor which employs a vanadium alloy for the blanket and first wall structure, ferritic-steel HT9 for the remainder of the loop and molten salt FLiBe as coolant/tritium breeding fluid. Since the radiation levels near the primary loop components are found to be less than 100 mR/hr 3–5 days after shutdown after three years of continuous full power operation, limited hands-on maintenance is conceivable. The very short half-lives of the predominant corrosion products make this result possible and make such a system very attractive.