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DOE issues RFQ for clean-energy projects at WIPP
The Department of Energy has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for interested parties that are looking to establish carbon pollution–free electricity (CFE) projects at its Waste Isolation Pilot Plant site in New Mexico.
Philippe Martin, Michel Pelletier, Denis Every, Derek Buckthorpe
Nuclear Technology | Volume 161 | Number 1 | January 2008 | Pages 35-44
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle and Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT08-A3911
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From the 1960s to the end of the 20th century, considerable studies were performed in Europe on fast breeder reactor fuels for reaching an industrial maturity. In the European plan, the European fast reactor project reached in 1998 the phase of validation of the concept, satisfying the requirements of economy and safety of the countries that contributed to the project.In this paper, we intend to give an idea about the main obstacles met on the way toward the high burnups: inner corrosion cladding interface, swelling and mechanical behavior of the constitutive materials (clad and wrapper), pin/pin interactions and pin/wrapper mechanical interactions, wrapper interactions within the reactor core, etc.For this, the paper is divided in three parts: