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U.S. nuclear fuel recycling takes two steps forward
Late last week saw two announcements from companies working to recycle used nuclear fuel on a commercial scale, providing welcome news to anyone hoping to see the United States move to unlock the hidden potential of the more than 94,000 metric tons of spent fuel stored at power plant sites around the country.
Yuzuri Yasuda, Keiji Nagai, Takayoshi Norimatsu, Shinsuke Fujioka, Hiroaki Nishimura, Katsunobu Nishihara, Yasukazu Izawa, Kunioki Mima
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 51 | Number 4 | May 2007 | Pages 769-771
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1476
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Several hundred tin dots with controlled size were easily fabricated on transparency film by using an inkjet printer with SnSO4 solution. A surface treatment using Tween 20 as the surfactant was necessary. The SnSO4 was reduced to metallic tin with NaBH4. The thickness of metallic tin was 25 nm for one throughput.
