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Savannah River Site completes concrete work for Saltstone Disposal Unit 11
The Savannah River Site has completed all concrete construction on its “mega-size” Saltstone Disposal Unit (SDU) 11 at the Saltstone Disposal Facility in Aiken, S.C. The several SDUs at the site are designed to provide safe, permanent storage for decontaminated salt solution from the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) as production is ramped up. The SDUs are crucial components of SRS’s liquid waste program, allowing the site to meet the cleanup responsibilities of the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
S. M. Petoukhov, A. C. Morreale, G. G. Patterson, J. H. Bae, K. I. Ahn, D. Dupleac, R-M. Nistor-Vlad
Nuclear Technology | Volume 212 | Number 8 | August 2026 | Pages 2200-2212
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2025.2602406
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In 2019, the International Atomic Energy Agency launched a coordinated research project titled “Advancing the State of the Practice in Uncertainty and Sensitivity Methodologies for Severe Accident Analysis in Water Cooled Reactors of CANDU Types.” This project involved participation from 22 organizations representing 18 member states. The purpose of the project was to advance the understanding and characterization of the sources of uncertainty and assess their impacts on key water-cooled reactor figures of merit predicted by severe accident (SA) codes. Three organizations from three member states participated in the CANada Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) exercise: Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Canada; Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Republic of Korea; and University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania. Each contributor used its own SA code and uncertainty analysis tools and selected its own uncertain input variables with associated probability distributions. All three participants performed a station blackout scenario for a generic CANDU 6 station, using similar normal operating conditions and analysis assumptions. This paper presents the results of the uncertainty and sensitivity calculations from each contributor and discusses the key findings, lessons learned, and future work.