The Disposal of Power Reactor Waste Into Deep Wells
Description:
For various reasons it is not possible to leave the uranium or other nuclear fuel in a power reactor until all of it has been "burned up" by fission. In the case of liquid fuel (homogeneous) reactors a small part is continuously bled out, purified and returned. In the case of solid fuel reactors, fuel elements are periodically removed, reprocessed and the "unburned" fuel put back into service. In both cases the purification produces wastes which contain radioactive fission products and transura…
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Date:
June 13, 1957
Creator:
De Laguna, Wallace, 1910- & Blomeke, J. O.
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UNT Libraries Government Documents Department