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A closer look at the initial NLIC selections—Part 2
In January, the Department of Energy announced its new Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus (NLIC) program, inviting states via a request for information to express their interest in hosting a facility supporting work from the front to the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle.
By April, 26 states had expressed interest in hosting such a facility. At the end of July, the DOE signed memorandums of understanding with five states—Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah—to more closely explore the possibilities of state-federal partnerships. These MOUs are not firm commitments from either the federal or state governments. Time will tell which—if any—of the five states develop projects through the program. In the meantime, today, we are taking a close look at what Utah, Idaho, Tennessee can offer in terms of a preexisting nuclear sector that could support new fuel cycle developments.
Peter Jansson, Martin Bengtsson, Ulrika Bäckström, Francisco Álvarez-Velarde, Dušan Čalič, Stefano Caruso, Ron Dagan, Luca Fiorito, Lydie Giot, Kevin Govers, Augusto Hernandez Solis, Volker Hannstein, Germina Ilas, Marjan Kromar, Jaakko Leppänen, Marita Mosconi, Pedro Ortego, Rita Plukienė, Arturas Plukis, Anssu Ranta-Aho, Dimitri Rochman, Linus Ros, Shunsuke Sato, Peter Schillebeeckx, Ahmed Shama, Teodosi Simeonov, Alexey Stankovskiy, Holly Trellue, Stefano Vaccaro, Vanessa Vallet, Marc Verwerft, Gašper Žerovnik, Anders Sjöland
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 196 | Number 9 | September 2022 | Pages 1125-1145
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2022.2053489
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The decay heat rate of five spent nuclear fuel assemblies of the pressurized water reactor type were measured by calorimetry at the interim storage for spent nuclear fuel in Sweden. Calculations of the decay heat rate of the five assemblies were performed by 20 organizations using different codes and nuclear data libraries resulting in 31 results for each assembly, spanning most of the current state-of-the-art practice. The calculations were based on a selected subset of information, such as reactor operating history and fuel assembly properties. The relative difference between the measured and average calculated decay heat rate ranged from 0.6% to 3.3% for the five assemblies. The standard deviation of these relative differences ranged from 1.9% to 2.4%.