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Supreme Court rules against Texas in interim storage case
The Supreme Court voted 6–3 against Texas and a group of landowners today in a case involving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing of a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, reversing a decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to grant the state and landowners Fasken Land and Minerals (Fasken) standing to challenge the license.
Tsuguyuki Kobayashi, Motoyasu Kinoshita, Sadao Hattori, Toru Ogawa, Yasushi Tsuboi, Masayoshi Ishida, Shinta Ogawa, Hiroaki Saito
Nuclear Technology | Volume 89 | Number 2 | February 1990 | Pages 183-193
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34345
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A simple fuel performance code, SESAME, has been developed to analyze the steady-state irradiation behavior of metallic fuels. Important characteristics of metallic fuels such as fission product gas release, swelling, material redistribution, bonding sodium infiltration, and axial elongation are studied. Simple models have been developed for the SESAME code, which have been found to be successful in predicting irradiation data and useful in investigating the basic mechanisms that contribute to these particular irradiation behaviors of metallic fuels.
