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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.
Pierre-Andre Haldy, Tejen Kumar Basu, Michel Schaer
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 19 | Number 2 | March 1991 | Pages 304-312
Technical Paper | Blanket Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A29366
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Results of 233U production rate measurements conducted in a vertical assembly of thorium oxide rods irradiated by high-intensity 14-MeV neutrons generator of the LOTUS facility are presented. The amount of 233U produced is determined by measuring the yield of 233Pa. Moreover, a method is presented to estimate the global 233U production in the blanket module from a limited number of point reaction rates measured throughout the module. The experimental data are compared with the results of preliminary two-dimensional calculations.
