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Foreign experience on effects of extended dry storage on the integrity of spent nuclear fuel

Description: This report summarizes the results of a survey of foreign experience in dry storage of spent fuel from nuclear power reactors that was carried out for the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM). The report reviews the mechanisms for degradation of spent fuel cladding and fuel materials in dry storage, identifies the status and plans of world-wide experience and applications, and documents the available information on the expected long-term integr… more
Date: April 1, 1992
Creator: Schneider, K.J. & Mitchell, S.J.
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Economics of a conceptual 75 MW Hot Dry Rock geothermal electric power station

Description: Man-made, Hot Dry Rock (HDR) geothermal energy reservoirs have been investigated for over ten years. As early as 1977 a research-sized reservoir was created at a depth of 2.9 km near the Valles Caldera, a dormant volcanic complex in New Mexico, by connecting two wells with hydraulic fractures. Thermal power was generated at rates of up to 5 MW(t) and the reservoir was operated for nearly a year with a thermal drawdown less than 10/sup 0/C. A small 60kW(e) electrical generation unit using a bina… more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Murphy, H. D.; Drake, R. H.; Tester, J. W. & Zyvoloski, G. A.
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The US Liquid Metal Reactor Development Program

Description: The US Liquid Metal Reactor Development Program has been restructured to take advantage of the opportunity today to carry out R and D on truly advanced reactor technology. The program gives particular emphasis to improvements to reactor safety. The new directions are based on the technology of the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR). Much of the basis for superior safety performance using IFR technology has been experimentally verified and aggressive programs continue in EBR-II and TREAT. Progress has … more
Date: January 1, 1988
Creator: Till, C.E.; Arnold, W.H. & Griffith, J.D.
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RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS. Proceedings of a Conference Held in Germantown, Maryland, November 15-17, 1961

Description: Thirty papers are presented reviewing AEC research projects related to fall-out from weapons tests. Reviews of specific related programs by representatives from Canada and the UK are also included. The scope of the conference includes characteristics of fall-out, atmospheric factors affecting deposition, distribution in the environment, and distribution in the food chain and man. Separate abstracts have been prepared for each paper. (C.H.)
Date: February 1, 1962
Creator: Klement, A.W. Jr. ed.
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Worldwide low-level waste disposal practices

Description: Low-level waste disposal practices will be described for ten or more countries. These practices will be compared with expectations for disposal designs for low-level waste regional compacts in the US.
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Towler, O A
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Decentralized energy studies: compendium of international studies and research

Description: The purpose of the compendium is to provide information about research activities in decentralized energy systems to researchers, government officials, and interested citizens. The compendium lists and briefly describes a number of studies in other industrialized nations that involve decentralized energy systems. A contact person is given for each of the activities listed so that interested readers can obtain more information.
Date: March 1, 1980
Creator: Wallace, C.
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Mapping our genes: The genome projects: How big, how fast

Description: For the past 2 years, scientific and technical journals in biology and medicine have extensively covered a debate about whether and how to determine the function and order of human genes on human chromosomes and when to determine the sequence of molecular building blocks that comprise DNA in those chromosomes. In 1987, these issues rose to become part of the public agenda. The debate involves science, technology, and politics. Congress is responsible for /open quotes/writing the rules/close quo… more
Date: April 1, 1988
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Fuel cycles for the 80's

Description: Papers presented at the American Nuclear Society's topical meeting on the fuel cycle are summarized. Present progress and goals in the areas of fuel fabrication, fuel reprocessing, spent fuel storage, accountability, and safeguards are reported. Present governmental policies which affect the fuel cycle are also discussed. Individual presentations are processed for inclusion in the Energy Data Base.(DMC)
Date: January 1, 1980
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International nuclear fuel cycle fact book. Revision 4

Description: This Fact Book has been compiled in an effort to provide (1) an overview of worldwide nuclear power and fuel cycle programs and (2) current data concerning fuel cycle and waste management facilities, R and D programs, and key personnel in countries other than the United States. Additional information on each country's program is available in the International Source Book: Nuclear Fuel Cycle Research and Development, PNL-2478, Rev. 2. The Fact Book is organized as follows: (1) Overview section -… more
Date: March 1, 1984
Creator: Harmon, K.M.; Lakey, L.T. & Leigh, I.W.
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International program to study subseabed disposal of high-level radioactive wastes

Description: This report provides an overview of the international program to study seabed disposal of nuclear wastes. Its purpose is to inform legislators, other policy makers, and the general public as to the history of the program, technological requirements necessary for feasibility assessment, legal questions involved, international coordination of research, national policies, and research and development activities. Each of these major aspects of the program is presented in a separate section. The obj… more
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Carlin, E.M.; Hinga, K.R. & Knauss, J.A.
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Summary of national and international radioactive waste management programs (excluding United States)

Description: This report is divided into two parts. Various national fuel cycle and waste management programs are summarized in tabular form in the first part. The second part of the report gives a nation-by-nation overview of fuel cycle and waste management technologies. Brief summaries on the activities of several international organizations are included. (LK)
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Harmon, K.M.
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An international comparison of government expenditures for energy conservation research and development:

Description: This study provides a comparison of US and foreign government spending for energy conservation research and development (R and D). The countries included in this analysis are: the United States, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, West Germany, and Japan. The approach of this paper was to compare the research program of each country at a high level of aggregation with the US Department of Energy (DOE) program structure. This paper does not allow for differences in the way each country defines or ac… more
Date: March 1, 1988
Creator: McDonald, S.C.
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Fossil Energy Program. Progress report for April 1980

Description: This report - the sixty-ninth of a series - is a compendium of monthly progress reports for the ORNL research and development programs that are in support of the increased utilization of coal and other fossil fuel alternatives to oil and gas as sources of clean energy. The projects reported this month include those for coal conversion development, chemical research and development, materials technology, component and process evaluation studies, technical support to major liquefaction projects, … more
Date: June 1, 1980
Creator: McNeese, L.E.
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Fission-product yield data from the US/UK joint experiment in the Dounreay Prototype Fast Reactor

Description: The United States and the United Kingdom have been engaged in a joint research program in which samples of fissile and fertile actinides have been incorporated in fuel pins and irradiated in the Dounreay Prototype Fast Reactor in Scotland. The purpose of this portion of the program is to study both the materials behavior and the nuclear physics results - primarily measurements of the fission-product yields in the irradiated samples and secondarily information on the amounts of heavy elements in… more
Date: April 1, 1986
Creator: Dickens, J.K. & Raman, S.
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Pressurized fluidized-bed combustion part-load behavior. Volume I. Summary report

Description: Tests performed during 1980 to determine the part-load characteristics of a pressurized fluidized-bed combustor for a combined-cycle power plant and to examine its behavior during load changing are discussed. Part-load operation was achieved by varying the bed temperature by amounts between 200 to 300/sup 0/F and the bed depth from between 9 and 10 ft at rates varying between 0.2 ft/min and 0.5 ft/min. The performance at part-load steady-state conditions and during transient conditions is repor… more
Date: September 1, 1981
Creator: Roberts, A. G.; Pillai, K. K.; Raven, P. & Wood, P.
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International efforts to reduce occupational radiation exposure at nuclear power plants

Description: The efficacy of various national programs on dose reduction is examined with a view to evaluating the most significant factors that help in reducing occupational exposure. Among the most successful of the dose reduction programs at water reactors are those of France, Sweden, and Canada where average annual plant doses are significantly less than the dose at US plants. Important research is also going on in other countries such as the UK, West Germany, Switzerland, and Japan. Some programs are d… more
Date: January 1, 1986
Creator: Khan, T.A. & Baum, J.W.
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Survey of waste package designs for disposal of high-level waste/spent fuel in selected foreign countries

Description: This report presents the results of a survey of the waste package strategies for seven western countries with active nuclear power programs that are pursuing disposal of spent nuclear fuel or high-level wastes in deep geologic rock formations. Information, current as of January 1989, is given on the leading waste package concepts for Belgium, Canada, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. All but two of the countries surveyed (France and the UK) have d… more
Date: September 1, 1989
Creator: Schneider, K.J.; Lakey, L.T. & Silviera, D.J.
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A worldwide perspective on actinide burning

Description: Worldwide interest has been evident over the past few years in reexamining the merits of recovering the actinides from spent light-water reactor (LWR) fuel and transmuting them in fast reactors to reduce hazards in geologic repositories. This paper will summarize some of the recent activities in this field. Several countries are embarked on programs of reprocessing and vitrification of present wastes, from which removal of the actinides is largely precluded. The United States is assessing the i… more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Burch, W.D.
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Characterization of the self magnetic pinch diode at high voltages for flash radiography.

Description: The Sandia Laboratories Advanced Radiographic Technologies Department, in collaboration with the United Kingdom Atomic Weapons Establishment, has been conducting research into the development of the Self-Magnetic-Pinched diode as an x-ray source suitable for flash radiographic experiments. We have demonstrated that this source is capable of meeting and exceeding the initial requirements of 250 rads (measured at one meter) with a 2.75 mm source spot-size. Recent experiments conducted on the RITS… more
Date: October 1, 2008
Creator: Cordova, Steve Ray; Portillo, Salvador; Oliver, Bryan Velten; Threadgold, James R. (Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston, Reading Berkshire, U.K.); Crotch, Ian (Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston, Reading Berkshire, U.K.) & Ziska, Derek Raymond
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Use of CAPE-OPEN Standard in US-UK Collaboration on Virtual Plant Simulation

Description: Under the auspices of a US-UK Memorandum of Understanding and Implementing Agreement for fossil energy R&D (http://us-uk.fossil.energy.gov/), the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) have recently completed a three-year collaboration on virtual plant modeling and simulation technology for advanced fossil-energy power generation systems. The R&D collaboration was aimed at taking full advantage of the synerg… more
Date: November 1, 2007
Creator: Zitney, S. E.
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An Assessment of Radiation Damage Models and Methods

Description: The current state of development of the primary models used for investigating and simulating irradiation effects in structural alloys of interest to the U.S. DOE's Generation-IV reactor program are discussed. The underlying theory that supports model development is also described where appropriate. First, the key processes that underlie radiation-induced changes in material properties are summarized, and the types of radiation effects that subsequently arise are described. Future development wo… more
Date: May 1, 2005
Creator: Stoller, Roger E. & Mansur, Louis K.
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Summary of foreign HTGR programs

Description: This report contains pertinent information on the status, objectives, budgets, major projects and facilities, as well as user, industrial and governmental organizations involved in major foreign gas-cooled thermal reactor programs. This is the second issue of this document (the first was issued in March 1979). The format has been revised to consolidate material according to country. These sections are followed by the foreign HTGR program index which serves as a quick reference to some of the ma… more
Date: June 1, 1980
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Developing a brittle fracture acceptance criterion for transport casks for adoption by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Description: With increasing nuclear material transportation demands, new generation casks have included designs which propose the use of structural materials other than austenitic stainless steel. Motivation for using alternate materials include potentials for lower cost, easier fabrication, no welding and less weight (higher payload). Examples of candidate materials for structural components include ferritic steels and ductile cast iron for the containment boundary and borated stainless steel for the bask… more
Date: January 1, 1991
Creator: Sorenson, K.B. (Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)) & Falci, F.P. (USDOE, Washington, DC (USA))
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Coal liquefaction: A research and development needs assessment: Final report, Volume 2

Description: Volume II of this report on an assessment of research needs for coal liquefaction contains reviews of the five liquefaction technologies---direct, indirect, pyrolysis, coprocessing, and bioconversion. These reviews are not meant to be encyclopedic; several outstanding reviews of liquefaction have appeared in recent years and the reader is referred to these whenever applicable. Instead, these chapters contain reviews of selected topics that serve to support the panel's recommendations or to illu… more
Date: March 1, 1989
Creator: Schindler, H. D.; Burke, F. P.; Chao, K. C.; Davis, B. H.; Gorbaty, M. L.; Klier, K. et al.
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