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No impact from Savannah River radioactive wasps
The news is abuzz with recent news stories about four radioactive wasp nests found at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The site has been undergoing cleanup operations since the 1990s related to the production of plutonium and tritium for defense purposes during the Cold War. Cleanup activities are expected to continue into the 2060s.
Karl Schleisiek, Jürgen Aberle, Siegfried Jacobi, August Rahn, Lothar Schmidt, Gilbert Vanmassenhove, Alfons Verwimp
Nuclear Technology | Volume 99 | Number 3 | September 1992 | Pages 289-300
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34713
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The aim of the MoI-7C in-pile local blockage experiments is to ascertain the consequences of local cooling disturbances in fuel subassemblies of liquid-metal fast breeder reactors. The experiments are carried out in the BR2 reactor at Mol/Belgium within the framework of a joint program of Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie/Centre d’Etude de VEnergie Nucleaire Mol. The last two experiments, Mol-7C/6 and 7, performed with the support of the Joint Research Centre Ispra in June 1988 and June 1989, respectively, are dealt with. The particular objective of these two tests is to investigate the consequences of local faults at high burnup and of blockages having contact with the subassembly wrapper tube. The test sections, the performance of the tests, and the results obtained are described. A preliminary interpretation is presented.