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Undeclared uranium hitches a ride on cobalt exports from Congo, study says
Philippe (left) and Manzuk quantified the amount of uranium that has been exported from the DRC in cobalt shipments or left behind in the environment. (Photo: Joel Hallberg/UW–Madison)
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Princeton University have published a study in Nature Communications that calls attention to a blind spot in nuclear nonproliferation: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has exported thousands of metric tons of uranium, and there is no accounting for where it has gone.
In partnership with Lighthouse Reports and the Financial Times, UW–Madison nuclear engineering professor and nuclear security expert Sébastien Philippe and Ryan Manzuk, a geologist and research fellow in Philippe’s group and at Princeton, conducted the study using countrywide mineralization and geochemical data.
Farzad Rahnema, Ryan Hon, Steven Douglass
Nuclear Technology | Volume 184 | Number 1 | October 2013 | Pages 1-28
Technical Paper | Reactor Physics / Pressurized Water Reactors | doi.org/10.13182/NT11-124
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This paper fully describes a whole-core benchmark problem based on a small two-loop pressurized water reactor composed of UO2 and MOX fuel assemblies. The specification includes heterogeneity at both the assembly and the core levels. The geometry and material compositions are fully described, and multigroup material cross-section libraries are provided in the two-group, four-group, and eight-group formats. Detailed Monte Carlo reference solutions including core eigenvalue, assembly-averaged fission distribution, and selected fuel pin fission density distributions are presented for benchmarking diffusion and transport methods. Three different core configurations are presented in this paper, namely, all-rods-out, all-rods-in, and some-rods-in.