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IAEA report confirms safety of discharged Fukushima water
An International Atomic Energy Agency task force has confirmed that the discharge of treated water from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is proceeding in line with international safety standards. The task force’s findings were published in the agency’s fourth report since Tokyo Electric Power Company began discharging Fukushima’s treated and diluted water in August 2023.
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C. M. Walter, P. G. Shewmon, J. P. Bacca
Nuclear Technology | Volume 11 | Number 1 | May 1971 | Pages 38-44
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT71-A30900
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A metallic fuel-element modeling code (BEMOD) has been developed to describe the irradiation behavior of EBR-II driver fuels. BEMOD has been applied to both the present Mark LA and the advanced Mark II driver fuels. Good agreement on cladding diameter changes as a function of burnup is obtained between calculations and measurements on irradiated fuel elements. At a reactor power of 50 MW(th), the code calculations indicate that the Mark IA element is capable of about 3.5 at.% before a cladding ΔD/D of 2% is expected, while the Mark II design should be capable of about twice that burnup before a similar cladding ΔD/D is attained. The increase in reactor power to 62.5 MW(th) appears to have no appreciable effect on the above values.
