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Take steps on SNF and HLW disposal
Matt Bowen
With a new administration and Congress, it is time once again to ponder what will happen—if anything—on U.S. spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste management policy over the next few years. One element of the forthcoming discussion seems clear: The executive and legislative branches are eager to talk about recycling commercial SNF. Whatever the merits of doing so, it does not obviate the need for one or more facilities for disposal of remaining long-lived radionuclides. For that reason, making progress on U.S. disposal capabilities remains urgent, lest the associated radionuclide inventories simply be left for future generations to deal with.
In March, Rick Perry, who was secretary of energy during President Trump’s first administration, observed that during his tenure at the Department of Energy it became clear to him that any plan to move SNF “required some practical consent of the receiving state and local community.”1
Ileese Glatter Schneir, Barry McQuillan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 28 | Number 5 | December 1995 | Pages 1849-1853
Technical Paper | Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets | doi.org/10.13182/FST95-A30424
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Low density microcellular foams containing dispersed high atomic number material have been produced. The work done by R. Simandl et al., using phase inversion of a binary solvent system and poly (4-methyl 1-pentene) to produce microporous polymer foams was successfully duplicated.1 To enhance the diagnostic properties of the material, molybdenum, a high Z material, was dispersed throughout the foam. We have been able to incorporate the molybdenum into the foam structure while maintaining a relatively low bulk density. Foam samples with initial molybdenum concentrations up to 25 wt % and with bulk densities as low as 15 mg/cc have been produced. The uniformity of the molybdenum dispersion has not yet been quantitatively characterized but does vary from sample to sample.
