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U.K.’s NWS gets input from young people on geological disposal
Nuclear Waste Services, the radioactive waste management subsidiary of the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, has reported on its inaugural year of the National Youth Forum on Geological Disposal forum. NWS set up the initiative, in partnership with the environmental consultancy firm ARUP and the not-for-profit organization The Young Foundation, to give young people the chance to share their views on the government’s plans to develop a geological disposal facility (GDF) for the safe, secure, and long-term disposal of radioactive waste.
Bradley J. Knutson, Richard A. Harris
Nuclear Technology | Volume 89 | Number 1 | January 1990 | Pages 9-17
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT90-A34355
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Experience using an automated core reactivity monitoring technique at the Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) through eight operating cycles is described. This technique relies on comparing predicted-to-measured rod positions to detect any anomalous (or unpredicted) core reactivity changes. Reactivity worth predictions of core state changes (e.g., temperature and irradiation changes) and compensating control rod movements are required for the rod position comparison. A substantial data base now exists to evaluate changes in temperature feedback reactivity effects operational in the FFTF, rod worth changes due to core loading, temperature and irradiation effects, and burnup effects associated with transmutation of fuel materials. This preliminary work focuses on resolving observed reactivity anomalies by evaluating the prediction models using additional zero-power rod worth measurement data along with calculations of rod worths and burnup rates for each cycle using cross-section data processed from the latest ENDF/B-V data set.