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Take steps on SNF and HLW disposal
Matt Bowen
With a new administration and Congress, it is time once again to ponder what will happen—if anything—on U.S. spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste management policy over the next few years. One element of the forthcoming discussion seems clear: The executive and legislative branches are eager to talk about recycling commercial SNF. Whatever the merits of doing so, it does not obviate the need for one or more facilities for disposal of remaining long-lived radionuclides. For that reason, making progress on U.S. disposal capabilities remains urgent, lest the associated radionuclide inventories simply be left for future generations to deal with.
In March, Rick Perry, who was secretary of energy during President Trump’s first administration, observed that during his tenure at the Department of Energy it became clear to him that any plan to move SNF “required some practical consent of the receiving state and local community.”1
Walter E. Clark, William B. Howerton
Nuclear Technology | Volume 49 | Number 2 | July 1980 | Pages 209-213
Nuclear Fuel Cycle | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT80-A32483
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Barium iodate, which is used as the vehicle for storing 129I in Portland cement concrete, is subject to radiolytic reduction to iodide. This could result in an increase in the leach rate of129I during storage due to the reduction of insoluble iodate to soluble iodide. The measured G value (ions of I- per 100 eV or per 1.602 × 10-17 J) was found to be 0.083 for concrete containing 9.05 wt% iodine. The reduction resulting from internal irradiation alone is quite small; only ∼0.21% of the stored 129I would be reduced in 1000 yr.
