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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
G. S. Brunson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 25 | Number 3 | March 1975 | Pages 553-571
Technical Paper | Instrument | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A24393
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High-resolution gamma spectrometry is routinely performed for fission product gases in Experimental Breeder Reactor II as a means of detecting and identifying fuel elements with leaks in the cladding. Detailed data accumulated for more than two years of operation has established background concentrations as well as the behavior of these fission products from eight different fuel elements. Different types of fuel have different “fingerprints.” It appears quite easy to distinguish a carbide leaker from either metal or oxide. The distinction between oxide and metal is less clear cut, but our results indicate that identification can be made with some confidence on the magnitude of the signal and on isotopic ratios, particularly the ratio 88Kr/138Xe. Further analysis has been made of the 23Ne activation rate, which is expected to be much higher and far more troublesome in future sodium-cooled fast reactors.