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Idaho to receive spent TRIGA fuel from Penn State
Heavy metal rods are placed into large stainless steel TRIGA spent fuel canisters to test their load-bearing capabilities. (Photo: DOE)
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management announced last week that it is preparing to receive a shipment of spent nuclear fuel from Penn State University’s research reactor. The fuel is being shipped to Idaho National Laboratory for research purposes.
DOE-EM said crews with the Idaho Cleanup Project recently fabricated and tested four stainless steel canisters that will be used to receive and store the used TRIGA fuel. (“TRIGA” stands for “Training, Research, Isotope, General Atomics.”)
Plutonium Futures - The Science 2024
I am a research scientist for Pu-bearing nuclear fuel manufacturing and characterization at JAEA, Tokaimura. I have a PhD in nuclear materials science obtained in 2014 from Grenoble University. The topic was the experimental investigation of the Oxygen/Metal ratio of uranium−plutonium mixed oxides with high Pu contents for fast reactors (CEA Cadarache). Since then, my research has been focused on determining the high-temperature properties of MOX fuels, especially for Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors.
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