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An International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility: Exploring a Russian Site as a Prototype: Proceedings of an International Workshop

One of the most formidable obstacles to exploiting the full potential of nuclear energy is the long-term disposal of highly radioactive waste that is generated by the burning of fuel in nuclear ...
Power Engineering

Transmutation Might Mute the Critics

When I first began studying nuclear engineering nearly 40 years ago, I was fascinated by the fact that nuclear reactions can transmute one element to another. As years passed and the nuclear ...
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Nuclear Wastes: Technologies for Separations and Transmutation

Transmutation of transuranics (TRUs) and fission products that are recovered from spent fuel offers potential for improving the technology for long-term disposal of ...
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Fission Product Yield Data for the Transmutation of Minor Actinide Nuclear Waste

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Nature

Energy obtained by Transmutation

MR. ROBERT D. POTTBB, of ‘Science Service’, Washington, D.C., points out that the confirmation of the artificial breakdown of uranium announced in New York (see also NATURE, Feb. 11, p. 233) is in the ...