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Deep geologic repository progress—2025 Update
Editor's note: This article has was originally published in November 2023. It has been updated with new information as of June 2025.
Outside my office, there is a display case filled with rock samples from all over the world. It contains a disk of translucent, orange salt from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M.; a core of white-and-bronze gneiss from the site of the future deep geologic repository in Eurajoki, Finland; several angular chunks of fine-grained, gray claystone from the underground research laboratory at Bure, France; and a piece of coarse-grained granite from the underground research tunnel in Daejeon, South Korea.
The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fuel Materials and Chemistry
Tuesday, November 17, 2020|12:00–2:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Richard Williamson (INL)
Alternate Chair:
David Andersson (LANL)
Session Organizer:
Scott Palmtag (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Vincent Novellino (NC State Univ.)
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Core Wide PCI Screening Analysis
Joseph Y.R. Rashid (Structural Integrity Associates, Inc.), Wenfeng Liu (Structural Integrity Associates, Inc.)
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The Thermo-Mechanical Fracture of Chromium Film-Zirconium Substrates
Tamir Hasan (North Carolina State University), Mohammed Zikry (North Carolina State University)
Kinetic model of incipient hydride formation in Zr clad under dynamic oxide growth conditions
Qianran Yu (University of California Los Angeles), Michael Reyes (University of California Los Angeles), Nachiket Shah (University of California Los Angeles), Jaime Marian (University of California Los Angeles)
Creep Wear and Gap Modeling for GTRF
Wei Lu (University of Michigan), Michael Thouless (University of Michigan)
3D Modeling of Missing Pellet Surface Defects with BISON
Benjamin Spencer (Idaho National Laboratory), Richard L. Williamson (Idaho National Laboratory), D. S. Stafford (Southwestern Scientific Ltd. Co.), Stephen R. Novascone (Idaho National Laboratory), Jason Hales (Idaho National Laboratory), Giovanni Pastore (University of Tennessee)
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