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DOE tests new sealing system for spent fuel canisters
Teams from the Department of Energy’s Offices of Environmental Management and Nuclear Energy recently collaborated on the Road Ready Demonstration Project by testing new equipment to seal spent nuclear fuel into a safe and transportable system for future shipments out of Idaho.
L. Rodrigo, H. Boniface, S. Suppiah
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 64 | Number 2 | August 2013 | Pages 333-339
Safety, Environment, and Tritium Handling | Proceedings of the Twentieth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (TOFE-2012) (Part 1), Nashville, Tennessee, August 27-31, 2012 | doi.org/10.13182/FST13-A18099
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Tritium-related activities at Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) encompass a number of fields, including tritium processing, tritium measurement, tritium interactions with materials, tritium behavior in the environment and tritium health and safety. This paper presents an overview of some of the key, past and present, tritium activities at AECL.
