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OECD NEA meeting focuses on irradiation experiments
Members of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency’s Second Framework for Irradiation Experiments (FIDES-II) joint undertaking gathered from September 29 to October 3 in Ketchum, Idaho, for the technical advisory group and governing board meetings hosted by Idaho National Laboratory. The FIDES-II Framework aims to ensure and foster competences in experimental nuclear fuel and structural materials in-reactor experiments through a diverse set of Joint Experimental Programs (JEEPs).
Hisayoshi Mitamura, Seiichiro Matsumoto, William J. Buykx, Shingo Tashiro
Nuclear Technology | Volume 85 | Number 1 | April 1989 | Pages 109-117
Technical Note | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34232
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SYNROC blocks containing 1.61 wt% of the curium source were fabricated for an alpha radiation stability test using the calciner and the hot press, which were newly installed in the hot cell. The calciner could dry and then calcine the curium-doped SYNROC slurry with very little powder carryover. The calcined powder had pour and tap densities of 0.50 and 0.85 g·cm-3, respectively. Four SYNROC blocks with almost equal densities (4.302 to 4.308 g·cm-3) were fabricated by hot pressing.