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Diablo Canyon advocacy, Midwest nuclear legislation among April state news items
Pending, passed, and coveted legislation involving nuclear energy made their way across multiple state capitol buildings in the month of April. Here are a few notable updates from California, Iowa, Kentucky, and Missouri.
M. A. Feraday, G. H. Chalder, K. D. Cotnam
Nuclear Technology | Volume 4 | Number 3 | March 1968 | Pages 148-153
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT68-A26378
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Zircaloy-clad specimens of U3Si have been irradiated in pressurized water at rod powers of 480 to 565 W per centimeter of length to burnups of ≈ 5500 MWd/tU. The rate of swelling of the U3Si, which is rapid during the early part of the irradiation, appears to decrease with increasing burnup. The increase in external diameter was much less for these fuel elements than for earlier ones. The improvement is attributed to the provision of a central void which became filled by the U3Si during irradiation.