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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
Laura Price, Halim Alsaed, Eduardo Basurto, Alex Salazar, Gregory Davidson, Mathew Swinney
Nuclear Technology | Volume 210 | Number 9 | September 2024 | Pages 1549-1566
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2023.2277028
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The U.S. Department of Energy is funding research into studying the consequences of postclosure criticality on the performance of a generic repository by (1) identifying the features, events, and processes (FEPs) that need to be considered in such an analysis, (2) developing the tools needed to model the relevant FEPs in a postclosure performance assessment, and (3) conducting analyses both with and without the occurrence of a postclosure criticality and comparing the results. This paper describes progress in this area of research and presents the results to date of analyzing the consequences of a postulated steady-state criticality in a hypothetical saturated shale repository. Preliminary results indicate that postclosure criticality would not affect repository performance.