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The Department of Energy's Atlas rail car is ready to move expended nuclear fuel safely
07 Jun 2024 13:51 GMT
… railroad transport system to move spent nuclear fuel.
Yes, the new … 000 pounds of used nuclear power plant fuel rods, or other high … -level nuclear waste, Atlas was … of radiation leaking
Today, spent fuel rods are kept on site at …
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Futuristic nuclear energy tech is here, but the risks of bombs and another Chernobyl remain
02 Jun 2024 09:32 GMT
… renaissance is not just that radioactive nuclear waste can be weaponized into … of commercial spent-fuel rods from Michigan’s Big Rock Point nuclear power plant …
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Gamma tomography of spent nuclear fuel for geological repository safeguards
29 May 2024 20:52 GMT
… nuclear weapons. All these materials must be intact when the fuel rods … gamma radiation emitted by spent nuclear fuel. Nuclear fuel consists of rods, a few meters … .
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Gamma tomography of spent nuclear fuel for geological repository safeguards (2024 …
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Moving nuclear waste through traditional territories could face opposition, Ontario First Nation says
27 May 2024 13:23 GMT
… spent fuel rods would have to pass.
Canada's nuclear … says, is the fear radioactive material rightly or wrongly … ship 16 nuclear steam boilers with radioactive components across … First Nations would accept radioactive waste being transported through …
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Russia’s Radioactive Submarines Remain a Toxic Arctic Threat
27 May 2024 17:27 GMT
… site amassed some 22,000 spent nuclear fuel assemblies from more than 100 … by Italy.
However, numerous damaged fuel rods still remain at the site … with 800 kilograms of spent uranium fuel. A radioactive release from this wreck …
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory begins examining fuel rods from Global Nuclear Fuel
10 May 2024 20:51 GMT
… new fuel rods developed by GE Vernova’s Global Nuclear Fuel (GNF … better economics and less spent fuel generated over the lifetime … long-term storage.
The fuel rods were manufactured at GNF’ … irradiation, the high burnup fuel rods were shipped to ORNL …
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North Korea Satellite Images Raise New Nuclear Fears
23 May 2024 17:48 GMT
… these sites are processing spent fuel rods into plutonium and producing … was expanding the Yongbyon nuclear complex.
Jeffrey Lewis, … to increase production of nuclear materials for weapons production … the need to increase nuclear production to strengthen the …
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Nuclear waste storage along the Great Lakes: How severe is the risk?
22 May 2024 11:11 GMT
… neat rows, concrete and steel nuclear waste casks look not unlike … contain spent fuel rods filled with used uranium cooling after years inside a nuclear …
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Nuclear waste train launch in Colorado set for June
17 May 2024 13:32 GMT
… will move commercial nuclear waste, including spent fuel rods from nuclear power stations to … disposal sites.
The Office of Nuclear … carry 17 different types of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) containers, known as …
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Reflections on nuclear power agreement with China
17 May 2024 13:54 GMT
… and the matter of radioactive waste disposal.
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… spent fuel in the first place?
Spent nuclear fuel is the fuel (uranium rods) …
Spent fuel is thermally hot as well as highly radioactive. … They are typically stored in spent fuel pools …