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MARVEL team shares lessons learned through microreactor development
On June 1 at the American Nuclear Society’s Annual Conference in Denver, Colo., a team from Idaho National Laboratory presented a session titled “Lessons Learned from MARVEL Reactor Fabrication.” The presentation highlighted challenges that arose as they moved from design to manufacturing and assembly, with a focus on reactor part fabrication, Stirling engine implementation, and reactivity control system development.
Philip J. Thomas, Tim Boorman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 86 | Number 2 | August 1989 | Pages 111-119
Technical Paper | Decontamination and Decommissioning / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34261
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The planning and the progress to date of the United Kingdom’s first full-scale decommissioning project, which is dismantling the Windscale Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor to stage 3 (the “greenfield” site concept), are described. The plant and the facilities that are being constructed to dismantle it are described. Methods used to separate and pack for disposal nonradioactive, low-level, and intermediate-level radioactive waste are summarized.