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House E&C members question the DOE
As work progresses on the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program, which will progress through DOE authorization rather than Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing, three members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce have sent a critical letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright.
The letter demands “information about the DOE and its employees’ dealings with the NRC and its staff” and expresses concern that DOE staff has “broken the firewall” between the departments.
Shekhar Kumar
Nuclear Technology | Volume 210 | Number 11 | November 2024 | Pages 2038-2049
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2024.2309070
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The density of aqueous solutions containing actinide nitrates is an important parameter for process design, equipment design, and remote operation/control. It is also significantly important for the estimation of atom densities during criticality calculations and related experiments involving actinide solutions. Using a massive database of 1353 points consisting of in-house-generated data as well as data published in the literature, a robust estimation of the coefficients of a re-parameterized and dimensionally consistent form of density equation was performed in the following range of parameters: U(VI) concentration 0 to 1330 g/L, Pu(IV) concentration 0 to 1201 g/L, HNO3 concentration 0 to 15.8 M, and temperature range of 283.15 to 373.15 K. This paper lists the details of the new database, the newly estimated coefficients, and the performance evaluation of the proposed re-parameterized dimensionally consistent equations.