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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.
Stefano Marchetti, Francesco Di Maio, Enrico Zio
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 200 | Number 6 | June 2026 | Pages 1323-1339
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2025.2515349
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Multi-unit (MU) nuclear power plants (NPPs) share safety features. As these may degrade in time, we propose a framework of an integrated deterministic and probabilistic safety assessment to consider their time-dependent fragility. Physics-of-failure models of the fragility of the shared safety features are embedded into a dynamic model of the accident scenario evolution, whose uncertainties are accounted for by Monte Carlo simulation. We apply the proposed framework to a case study concerning a MU NPP composed of four small modular dual fluid reactors sharing the emergency core cooling systems and the emergency diesel generators. The results show the effectiveness of the framework in providing a dynamic risk picture that accounts for the degradation of shared safety features.