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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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New coolants, new fuels: A new generation of university reactors
Here’s an easy way to make aging U.S. power reactors look relatively youthful: Compare them (average age: 43) with the nation’s university research reactors. The 25 operating today have been licensed for an average of about 58 years.
K. J. Hofstetter, W. B. Stroube, Jr.,+ B. C. Henderson, G. A. Huff
Nuclear Technology | Volume 49 | Number 3 | August 1980 | Pages 443-457
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A17692
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The on-line and process radiation monitoring capability at the Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant has been evaluated. Experiments have been performed to test the monitors’ capability to assay plant streams. Several of the monitors have been subjected to evaluation experiments in the laboratory to determine sensitivity, accuracy, reliability, and overall system performance. The incorporation of many of these monitors into a real-time or near-real-time material control system is under way. Many of the monitors have been tested for operability in situ and the results of these tests indicate satisfactory performance over the intended sensitivity ranges. An effort is under way to develop new nondestructive assay techniques for on-line monitoring of special nuclear materials present in the process streams of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant.