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November 9–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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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.
C. E. Dickerman, L. E. Robinson, E. S. Sowa, J. H. Monaweck, C. August
Nuclear Technology | Volume 3 | Number 8 | August 1967 | Pages 461-473
Technical Paper and Note | doi.org/10.13182/NT67-A27777
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Behavior of two types of irradiated metallic fast-reactor fuel pins under transient heating in an inert-gas atmosphere in the TREAT reactor was studied under conditions ranging up to complete meltdown. Irradiation-induced changes in failure thresholds, modes of failure, and post-failure fuel motion were significant but not enough to make gross changes in the course of an accident. The amount of swelling observed in the post-experimental fuel residue was large enough to have played a significant role in determining the course of a meltdown accident.
