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DOE nuclear cleanup costs, schedule delays continue to rise, GAO says
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management faces significant cost increases, schedule delays, and data management issues in completing nuclear waste cleanup projects, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
U. Benedict, G. Giacchetti, Hj. Matzke, K. Richter, C. Sari, H. E. Schmidt
Nuclear Technology | Volume 35 | Number 1 | August 1977 | Pages 154-161
Technical Paper | Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31858
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Carbide-based fuels simulating high burnup were prepared by addition of inactive fission product elements. They contained fission product phases of the UMoC2 and U2RUC2 type, and a rare-earth oxide phase. The thermal conductivity of the material is within the range observed for carbide-based fuels free of fission products. The diffusion of plutonium was considerably enhanced by the addition of fission products. The solid fission product swelling rate of a carbide-based fuel was estimated to be 0.5% per at.% burnup.
