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Center for Used Fuel Research: Building confidence in storage and transport
Used nuclear fuel storage and transportation have reached a critical juncture.
Dozens of utilities need reliable data on how used nuclear fuel performs in dry storage casks and canisters to extend regulatory licenses at sites across the United States. Likewise, the Department of Energy expects to take ownership of the used nuclear fuel—termed “spent nuclear fuel” in the laws and regulations governing its stewardship—and transfer it to one or more federal staging facilities for management and disposition.
Meanwhile, dozens of reactor companies are testing prototypes of advanced reactors and advanced reactor fuels. Eventually, regulators and industry must also verify the safety and security of storage methods for these advanced fuel types.
To help address these challenges, the DOE established the Center for Used Fuel Research (CUFR) in January 2026 for work related to the long-term storage and transport of used nuclear fuel.
Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE) 2020 Virtual Meeting
Technical Session|Sponsored by Fusion Energy
Monday, November 16, 2020|3:40–5:50PM EST|3
Session Chair:
Juan Caneses (ORNL)
Staff Producer:
David Strutz (American Nuclear Society)
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Pressure Response Optimization of an Eddy Current Driven Valve for the ITER Shattered Pellet Injection System
Adriana G Ghiozzi (ORISE), Monica L Gehrig (Missouri University of Science and Technology), Dave A Rasmussen, Larry R Baylor, Milton N Ericson, Trey E Gebhart (ORNL), Danah A Velez (ORISE)
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Structural Analysis of the US ITER ECH Transmission Line System
Kevin Freudenberg, Kristine Cochran, Robert Myatt, Michael Kaufman, Aravind Shanmugasundaram (ORNL)
Optimization of Ion Flow Rates in a Helicon Injected IEC Fusion System
George H Miley, Qiheng Cai (University of Illinois)
Parallel operation with 9 sets of inertial electrostatic confinement fusion (IECF) devices
Hodaka Osawa (Kansai University, Japan)
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Identification of hydrogen isotope ratio on IECF experiment with getter pump using deuterium and tritium mixed gas
Hodaka Osawa (Kansai University, Japan), Teppei Ohta (Kansai University, Japan)
