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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).”
K. M. Song et al.
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 48 | Number 1 | July-August 2005 | Pages 290-293
Technical Paper | Tritium Science and Technology - Tritium Handling Facilities | doi.org/10.13182/FST05-A929
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The amount of the tritium removed from the Wolsong NPPs after the WTRF operation start was simulated through the modeling of the tritium balance between the Wolsong NPPs and the WTRF. Five WTRF operating scenarios were proposed and the profiles of the tritium level depending on these scenarios were obtained from the simulation. It was predicted that about 9×1017 Bq/yr of tritium would be removed in the beginning of WTRF operation. However the tritium levels in the moderators will be steadily reduced and saturated less than 3×1011 Bq/kg in 2013, and then about 2×1017 Bq/yr of tritium will be removed from the Wolsong NPPs by the WTRF operation.
