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DOE on track to deliver high-burnup SNF to Idaho by 2027
The Department of Energy said it anticipated delivering a research cask of high-burnup spent nuclear fuel from Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia to Idaho National Laboratory by fall 2027. The planned shipment is part of the High Burnup Dry Storage Research Project being conducted by the DOE with the Electric Power Research Institute.
As preparations continue, the DOE said it is working closely with federal agencies as well as tribal and state governments along potential transportation routes to ensure safety, transparency, and readiness every step of the way.
Watch the DOE’s latest video outlining the project here.
Xiao Gang
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 169 | Number 1 | September 2011 | Pages 56-67
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE10-14
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
To obtain the probability distribution of the burst waiting time of neutron initiation in a multiplying assembly, a method that simulates the neutrons that induce a persistent fission chain is introduced in this paper. By this simulation method, neutron initiation experiments performed on Godiva-II and CFBR-II at a reactivity above prompt critical and performed on Godiva-I at a reactivity above delayed critical are studied. The probability density function of the burst waiting time of these experiments is calculated, and the results agree well with those of the experiments. Based on this simulation algorithm, the strength of the delayed neutron source changing with time is also calculated, which helps in the understanding of these neutron initiation experiments conducted on the pulse reactor.