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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
Richard R. Hobbins, David A. Petti, Donald L. Hagrman
Nuclear Technology | Volume 101 | Number 3 | March 1993 | Pages 270-281
Technical Paper | Severe Accident Technology / Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT93-A34790
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Recent advances in the understanding of fission product release from fuel under severe accident conditions in light water reactors are reviewed. In addition to the effects of temperature and time at temperature, recent results from in-pile and out-of-pile tests and the accident at Three Mile Island Unit 2 suggest that the effects of fuel morphology such as restructuring of the UO2 microstructure, fuel liquefaction, molten pool formation, debris bed formation, and the effect of fuel chemistry have important influences on fission product release behavior under severe accident conditions. Consideration of these effects is required for complete models of fission product release during severe light water reactor accidents.
