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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.
Michio Murase, Isao Sumida, Koichi Kotani, Hajime Yamamoto
Nuclear Technology | Volume 37 | Number 2 | February 1978 | Pages 138-147
Technical Paper | Plant Water Chemistry / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT78-A31981
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An impurity interaction code for a mesh-packed cold trap was developed, and the properties of the packed trap, such as the trapping efficiency and capacity, were calculated using this code. As a result, the trapping efficiency and capacity are greatly affected by the packing ratio and the wire diameter of the mesh packing. Precipitation of impurity is promoted at the entrance to the mesh packing. This facilitating effect hastens flow blockage and decreases the capacity. Moreover, the capacity decreases with increase in the efficiency.