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U.K.’s NWS gets input from young people on geological disposal
Nuclear Waste Services, the radioactive waste management subsidiary of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has reported on its inaugural year of the National Youth Forum on Geological Disposal forum. NWS set up the initiative, in partnership with the environmental consultancy firm ARUP and the not-for-profit organization The Young Foundation, to give young people the chance to share their views on the government’s plans to develop a geological disposal facility (GDF) for the safe, secure, and long-term disposal of radioactive waste.
J. T. A. Roberts, B. J. Wrona, D. Fischer, J. A. Buzzell
Nuclear Technology | Volume 27 | Number 2 | October 1975 | Pages 267-272
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24294
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Modifications to the direct electrical heating apparatus have enabled it to be used successfully to heat irradiated mixed-oxide fuel pellets to melting in an α-γ hot cell. For this purpose, a fuel extrusion device was constructed to remove irradiated fuel from its cladding. Proof-testing was successfully conducted using two UO2-20 wt% PuO2 pellets irradiated in the Experimental Breeder Reactor II to 3.25 at.% burnup at ∼ 3.05 kW/m (∼10 kW/ft). The sequence of events leading to fuel failure—namely, melting, swelling, and fragmentation—agree with observations from inreactor accident simulations.
