Increasing complexity in reactor designs suggests a need to reexamine of methods applied in spent-fuel characterization. The ability to accurately predict the nuclide composition of depleted reactor fuel is important in a wide variety of applications. These applications include, but are not limited to, the design, licensing, and operation of commercial/research reactors and spent-fuel transport...

This race is particularly visible in the automotive field. Companies around the globe are vying to build a new, less polluting automobile engine that does not run on gasoline. In the US, for instance, General Motors (GM) spent over US$1 billion on developing an electric car that runs on a hydrogen fuel cell. It originally chose hydrogen fuel as the basis for the engine. Yet mass production of a...

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This annex summarizes what decommissioning is, alternative decommissioning strategies, the status of decommissioning projects around the world, and the factors that influence choices among decommissioning strategies. After a nuclear power reactor is turned off for the last time, the initial steps toward decommissioning are not unfamiliar. The fuel is moved to the spent fuel storage pond where i...

The decay heat rate of five spent nuclear fuel assemblies the pressurized water reactor type were measured by calorimetry at interim storage for in Sweden. Calculations performed 20 organizations using different codes and data libraries resulting 31 results each assembly, spanning most current state-of-the-art practice. calculations based on a selected subset information, such as operating hist...