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St. Lucie dry storage campaign completed in record time, Holtec says
Holtec International has completed a spent nuclear fuel dry storage campaign at NextEra Energy’s St. Lucie nuclear power plant in record time, according to the company. Twelve of Holtec's HI-STORM FW cask systems were loaded to the plant’s independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI) in little over a month. In total, 144 used fuel assemblies were moved from St. Lucie’s used fuel pools to the ISFSI pad.
Jingying Gao, Liqin Ge, Bo Li, Zhan Shi, Sufen Chen, Xiangwei Zhao, Zhongze Gu
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 61 | Number 4 | May 2012 | Pages 275-281
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST12-A13580
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Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) microcapsules for inertial confinement fusion targets were fabricated. First, density-matched double emulsions were generated with a double T-junction microfluidic device. Second, the solvents in the middle phase of the double emulsions were driven off with a rotary evaporator. The radii of the obtained PAN microcapsules with smooth surfaces were in the region of 50 to 500 m, with shell thickness from 30 to 300 m. Influences of solvents, flow speeds, and solidification conditions on the microcapsules were studied.