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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).”
P.R. Ballantyne, A.C. Bell, J.L. Hemmerich
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 2 | March 1992 | Pages 483-488
Safety; Measurement and Accountability; Operation and Maintenance; Application | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29793
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The Joint European Torus (JET) Active Gas Handling System (AGHS) will store and process the tritium required for the active phase operation of JET. Numerous types of secondary containments are used to house the process components necessary for this processing and storage. Secondary containments are a key safety feature of the plant's design and provide a defence-in-depth against the release of tritium. The secondary containment designs, features, operating conditions and integrity monitoring and the role that they play in mitigating releases from the AGHS are discussed.
