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NRC v. Texas: Supreme Court weighs challenge to NRC authority in spent fuel storage case
The State of Texas has not one but two ongoing federal court challenges to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that could, if successful, turn decades of NRC regulations, precedent, and case law on its head.
Edmund S. Sowa
Nuclear Technology | Volume 7 | Number 1 | July 1969 | Pages 100-105
Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT69-A28391
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An investigation was performed on possible penetration of sodium into Type-304L stainless-steel grain boundaries when the steel was exposed to the liquid metal at 1200°F. The method used consisted of progressive penetration with a laser through sodium-filled thin wall stainless-steel tubes ∼0.0005 in. at a time. Simultaneous recording of the emission spectrum of each sample on photographic film resulted in the production of a comparative record which was analyzed for the intensity of the sodium 5890 and 5895.5 Å doublet. Entry into a sodium-rich region was attended with intensification of the sodium lines. Results with a series of tubes exposed to sodium at 1200°F up to 1425 h and compared with a control sample not treated at 1200°F did not show any evidence of sodium penetration through Type-304L stainless steel.
