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Spent fuel recycling and conditioning topic of U.S.-Japan meeting
Officials with the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management discussed spent nuclear fuel recycling and conditioning with counterparts from Japan during the 13th U.S.-Japan Technical Meeting of the Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group, held recently in Santa Fe, N.M.
DeeEarl Vaden, Tae-Sic Yoo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 193 | Number 5 | May 2019 | Pages 549-553
Technical Note | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2018.1542879
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
This technical note discusses radioactive decay computation with multiple source terms with heterogeneous introduction dates to the system. Two methods are considered: (1) decaying in sequence from the oldest dated source, ad finitium, to the final decay date and (2) decaying each source term to the final decay date and summing the resulting nuclides. We prove that radioactive decay computation using the prescribed two methods produces the same result. The algorithmic advantage of the second method over the first one is formally argued. The radioactive decay of 90Sr with multiple initial decay dates is given as an illustrative example.