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Spent fuel recycling and conditioning topic of U.S.-Japan meeting
Officials with the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management discussed spent nuclear fuel recycling and conditioning with counterparts from Japan during the 13th U.S.-Japan Technical Meeting of the Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group, held recently in Santa Fe, N.M.
Dariush Azimi-Garakani, John Garnett Williams
Nuclear Technology | Volume 36 | Number 3 | December 1977 | Pages 368-378
Technical Paper | Technique | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A31950
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Fission rates have been experimentally determined in the NISUS standard fast assembly, installed on the University of London Reactor CONSORT, with a Makrofol solid-state track recorder (SSTR). The results are compared with fission chamber measurements. The fission tracks were counted by the Quantimet 720. The optical efficiency of the Makrofol SSTR was found to be (94.6 ± 0.7)% for thin deposits. The measurements of 238U/235U fission ratio with SSTR showed a discrepancy of ∼3%o compared with those of the fission chamber.