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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
D. L. Hagrman, D. A. Petti, G. R. Smolik, K. A. McCarthy
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 26 | Number 3 | November 1994 | Pages 993-997
Tritium Technology, Safety, Environment, and Remote Maintenance | Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 | doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40284
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The mechanisms involved in the formation and transport of aerosols that might be present during possible fusion reactor accidents were investigated. A cascade impactor was used to collect particles formed by oxidation and volatilization of a tungsten alloy containing 1% rhenium, an activation product of tungsten. The alloy was tested at 800, 1000 and 1200°C in flowing air and at 800°C in steam. The quantities, size distributions, and chemical compositions of the particles were determined using a variety of analytical methods. Comparisons were then made with calculations of the vapor release rate, the aerosol nucleation, and the transport of aerosol to the impactor.