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The news is abuzz with recent news stories about four radioactive wasp nests found at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The site has been undergoing cleanup operations since the 1990s related to the production of plutonium and tritium for defense purposes during the Cold War. Cleanup activities are expected to continue into the 2060s.
Eishi Ibe, Shunsuke Uchida
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 89 | Number 4 | April 1985 | Pages 330-350
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE85-A18625
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Dependencies of radiolytic aspects on geometric and operational conditions of boiling water reactor (BWR) primary systems were studied for normal operation or for hydrogen alternate water chemistry (HAWC) by using a computer simulation code AQUARY. Statistical regression analyses were applied to those calculated results and a great many close correlations were found among radiolytic concentrations. In the course of the study, it was discovered that residence time and energy deposition rate in the downcomer had a critical effect on HAWC. A set of simple estimation formulas for radiolytic conditions was proposed for normal BWR operation, and the following prediction formulas were proposed for the oxygen gas release rate and oxygen concentration in the recirculation line under HAWC: .