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DOE turns to private sector to build out spent nuclear fuel recycling
The Department of Energy on April 22 issued two requests for applications seeking proposals from private industry on kickstarting the reprocessing and recycling of spent nuclear fuel in the United States.
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F. Schmittroth, R. E. Schenter
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 63 | Number 3 | July 1977 | Pages 276-291
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE77-A27040
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Based on a sensitivity analysis of decay-heat summation calculations, uncertainties are obtained for the calculated decay heat associated with the thermal fission of 235U and the fast fission of 238U and 239Pu. For typical reactor irradiation times and cooling times >100 s, these uncertainties are <3.5% for 235U, 4% for 238U, and 5% for 239Pu. All calculations are based on ENDF/B-IV data.
