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Wyoming as a hub for new nuclear manufacturing and microreactor deployment?
A 60-year-old Wyoming industrial machinery company is partnering with nuclear innovator BWX Technologies to deploy 50-megawatt microreactors in America’s heartland over the coming years to provide carbon-free heat and power for industrial users.
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Technical Paper | The Back End of the Light Water Reactor Fuel Cycle / Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT79-A16317
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Borosilicate glasses containing actual high-level Savannah River Plant waste were leached in static, distilled water. Leach rates based on 90Sr, 137Cs, and plutonium analyses were similar: 10−5 to 10−6 g of glass/(cm2·day) initially, 10−7 to 10−8 g/(cm2·day) after two weeks, and 10−8 to 10−9 g/(cm2·day) after 100 days. The leach rates were not directly correlated with waste composition, but were qualitatively related to the tendency of the glass to devitrify that could be caused by certain combinations of waste components. According to a proposed model, leach rates were diffusion-controlled during the entire 100-day test.