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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.
Bernard W. Riemer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 15 | Number 2 | March 1989 | Pages 1051-1057
Magnet Engineering, Design and Experiments — II | doi.org/10.13182/FST89-A39831
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A comparison of structural efficiency of the toroidal field (TF) coils between the Next European Torus (NET) and the Fusion Experimental Reactor (FER) machines was made. The effectiveness of their winding packs to help react loads incurred from in-plane and out-of-plane electromagnetic forces was estimated. Only analytic techniques, including mechanics of materials methods and composite mixture rules, were used. The results for NET compared well with the fairly detailed two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) finite element analysis (FEA) performed by the NET team. Similar FEAs of the Advanced Option C (ACS) version of FER have not been done, but the analytic results should be reasonable. The methodology used has been successfully programmed for use in reactor systems codes. Research sponsored by the Office of Fusion Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, under contract DE-AC05-84OR21400 with Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Incorporated.