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Spent fuel recycling and conditioning topic of U.S.-Japan meeting
Officials with the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management discussed spent nuclear fuel recycling and conditioning with counterparts from Japan during the 13th U.S.-Japan Technical Meeting of the Civil Nuclear Energy Research and Development Working Group, held recently in Santa Fe, N.M.
B. L. Koponen
Nuclear Technology | Volume 34 | Number 2 | July 1977 | Pages 242-248
Technical Paper | Chemical Processing | doi.org/10.13182/NT77-A39700
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Some storage and transportation arrays become more reactive when the fissile material density is reduced. We have calculated this effect for arrays of shipping containers and for arrays of 235U spheres. The reactivity enhancement is due mainly to increased utilization of thermal neutrons and reduction in neutron leakage resulting from the increased size of low-density units.
