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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.
Theodore H. Bauer, Thomas H. Braid, Karl Schleisiek
Nuclear Technology | Volume 99 | Number 3 | September 1992 | Pages 343-350
Technical Paper | Nuclear Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34718
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A technique is presented to quantify fuel damage in a liquid-metal reactor through fast-running computer analysis of delayed neutron data, suitable for analysis of both small-scale in-pile experiments and full-scale plants. Validating analyses are described for five in-pile severe accident simulations performed within the Sodium Loop Safety Facility and Mol-7C test programs. Comparison is made of measured and calculated amounts of fuel damage.