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Characterization, Properties and Methods of Spent Nuclear Fuel
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2024
- Author: Anders Sjöland
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 8 5 9 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 8 6 0 - 3
Characterization, Properties and Methods of Spent Nuclear Fuel is a comprehensive reference focused on the backend of the nuclear fuel cycle. It is paramount that researche… Read more
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Request a sales quoteCharacterization, Properties and Methods of Spent Nuclear Fuel is a comprehensive reference focused on the backend of the nuclear fuel cycle. It is paramount that researchers and engineers involved with spent fuel have a deep understanding of the specific fuel they are handling for both safety and economic reasons, and this book presents various opportunities to optimize both nuclear facilities and processes. It starts with a summary of the topic before presenting a broad and deep analysis of the methods available, including transport, storage, disposal, reprocessing, and accidents.
Fuel characterization is then presented alongside various methods, measurements, codes and calculations which the reader can follow and apply to their own research or setting. With a focus on decision making and safety, this book will benefit all readers involved in spent nuclear fuel and will equip them with a clear understanding of the safest and most economical approaches which best suit their specific setting.
- Presents a full analysis of the backend of the nuclear fuel cycle and equips readers with a deep understanding of various types of spent fuel
- Provides a practical guide which includes codes, calculations, and step-by-step methods
- Covers fuel integrity, safety, and dissolution alongside relevant international guidelines and criteria
Researchers and professionals in the nuclear industry, particularly those involved in the management of spent nuclear fuel and the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle
1. Introduction
2 .The back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle
•Situation and history of the nuclear fuel at time of off-loading in reactor
•Transport
•Intermediate storage
•Wet storage in pools
•Dry storage in casks
•Final disposal
•Reprocessing
•Catastrophic accidents
•Requirements
3. Characterization
•Decay heat
4. Calorimetric measurements
5. Indirect determination methods
6. Calculation by codes
•Burn-up (BU), Initial enrichment (IE), Cooling time (CT).
•Criticality – multiplicity
•Nuclear radiation:
7. The radiation field from spent nuclear fuel
•Gamma radiation
•Neutron radiation
•Cherenkov radiation
•Content of the nuclear fuel - nuclide inventory
•Uncertainty, bias and accuracy
8. Uncertainty analysis for characterization of spent nuclear fuel
9. Conservatisms and margin
•Characterization systems
10. Needs and requirements for different parts of the back-end
11. Detectors
12. Data acquisition
13. Decision making
•International and national guidelines
14. International safeguards verification
•Background and international law
•Identification of the nuclear fuel
•Contents of fuel – amount of fissile material
•Missing pins - completeness of fuel assemblies
•Weight
•Decay heat
•Seals and markings
•Authentication of measurement signals and shared characterization systems
15. Fuel information: data and history
16. Codes
17. Nuclear data
•Overview
•Libraries
•Future needs
18. Fuel integrity
•Damaged and failed nuclear fuel
•Nuclear fuel behaviour and risks related to their history and properties
•Long term safety case
19. Nuclear fuel dissolution
•Acceptance criteria
•International and national guidelines
- No. of pages: 350
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 1, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323908597
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Anders Sjöland
Dr. Anders Sjöland is the Co-Ordinator of Spent Fuel at the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management. He is also the Chairman of the Swedish SKB Nuclear Fuel Forum and recent Executive Secretary for the Research and Development Council in Sweden. Dr. Sjöland obtained his Master of Science and Engineering from Lund Institute of Technology, his ‘Licentiate’ degree in Nuclear Physics from Lund Institute of Technology, and then became a Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Physics 2 years later.
Affiliations and expertise
Co-Ordinator and Chairman, The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management, Sweden