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Recent surveys confirm high levels of U.S. nuclear support
Surveys have consistently indicated that public support in the United States for the use of nuclear energy has been increasing in recent years. Four recent surveys continue to suggest that near-record-high numbers of Americans support nuclear energy. However, the survey results differ—sometimes widely—in the details of their findings.
Yasuo Arai, Takashi Iwai, Mitsuo Akabori, Kazuo Minato
Nuclear Technology | Volume 162 | Number 2 | May 2008 | Pages 244-249
Technical Paper | First International Pyroprocessing Research Conference | doi.org/10.13182/NT08-A3952
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Pyrochemical processing has several advantages over conventional wet processing for the treatment of spent nitride fuel. Besides the molten salt electrorefining of nitride fuel, actinide nitride formation in and recovery from the liquid cadmium cathode is a key technology in the nitride fuel cycle with pyrochemical processing. It was found that heating a cadmium alloy containing plutonium and uranium at 973 K under a nitrogen gas stream resulted in the simultaneous nitridation of the actinides and the distillation of cadmium. Furthermore, nitride pellets were prepared from the powder recovered without any milling or granulating process. The results obtained in the present study suggested that the nitride fuel cycle with pyrochemical processing is technologically feasible for transmutation of minor actinides and advanced fast reactors.
