scholarly journals Yucca Mountain Project - Argonne National Laboratory annual progress report, FY 1994

10.2172/67733 ◽  
1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.K. Bates ◽  
J.A. Fortner ◽  
P.A. Finn ◽  
D.J. Wronkiewicz ◽  
J.C. Hoh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Laboratory ◽  
Argonne National Laboratory ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Annual Progress Report

scholarly journals Argonne National Laboratory Monthly Progress Report for August 1953

1953 ◽  
Author(s):  
Not Given Author
Keyword(s):  
National Laboratory ◽  
Argonne National Laboratory ◽  
Progress Report

scholarly journals Corroded spent nuclear fuel examined with EELS

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 562-563
Author(s):  
Edgar C. Buck ◽  
Nancy L. Dietz ◽  
John K. Bates
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Spent Nuclear Fuel ◽  
National Laboratory ◽  
Argonne National Laboratory ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
Radiological Hazard ◽  
Geologic Repository ◽  
Simulated Groundwater ◽  
Long Term Behavior

Direct disposal of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) into the proposed unsaturated geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, NV is being studied at several laboratories, including Argonne National Laboratory. Corrosion tests with SNF are being conducted to understand the long-term behavior of SNF under conditions designed to simulate the unsaturated conditions at the site. The SNF used in this study was the Approved Testing Material (ATM)-106 with a bum-up of 43 MW·d/kg U. A sample of ATM-106 fuel was exposed to dripping simulated groundwater for 271 days; after this time the experiment was terminated and the material removed for further study. Details of the testing methodology have been given by Finn et al.,.Previous attempts to study SNF with TEM have used ion milled samples, in this study we prepared the samples by ultramicrotomy which reduced the radiological hazard substantially.

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