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MARVEL team shares lessons learned through microreactor development
On June 1 at the American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference in Denver, Colo., a team from Idaho National Laboratory presented a session titled “Lessons Learned from MARVEL Reactor Fabrication.” The presentation highlighted challenges that arose as they moved from design to manufacturing and assembly, with a focus on reactor part fabrication, Stirling engine implementation, and reactivity control system development.
Alan W. Marley, Douglas W. Akers, Charles V. McIsaac
Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 4 | December 1989 | Pages 845-856
Technical Paper | TMI-2: Decontamination and Waste Management / Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27678
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Samples from Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) ranging from auxiliary building atmosphere to core debris were collected and analyzed using a variety of techniques. Many of the samples had to be handled remotely, and standard laboratory analytical techniques were modified to accommodate the extremely high radiation fields. The TMI-2 samples presented unique problems with sampling and the laboratory analysis of numerous sample types.