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Since the beginning of the nuclear era, significant scientific attention has been given to thorium’s potential as a … nuclear fuel. Although the thorium fuel cycle has never been fully developed, the opportunities and challenges that might … arise from the use of thorium in the nuclear fuel cycle are still being studied in many countries and in the context of …
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This volume is the fourteenth of the series “Chemical Thermodynamics” published by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency. It is the second update of the critical reviews published, successively, in 1992 as Chemical Thermodynamics of Uranium, in 1995 as Chemical Thermodynamics of Americium, in 1999...
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Nuclear reactor safety is primarily concerned with the prevention of radiation-related damage to the public from the operation of commercial nuclear reactors; safety limits are introduced to avoid fuel failures during normal operation, or to mitigate the consequences of reactor accidents in...
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Environmental activities in uranium mining and milling are becoming increasingly important owing to: - the stricter requirements for new facilities being imposed by many countries in the form of environmental clearance approvals; - the large number of uranium production facilities which have...
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Although the recycling of plutonium as thermal mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel in pressurised water reactors (PWRs) is now well-established on a commercial scale, many physics questions remain. The main question addressed in this report is the number of times plutonium can effectively be recycled in a...
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critical review of the thermodynamic properties of thorium, its solid compounds and aqueous complexes, initiated as part of the … consistency not only within the recommended data sets of thorium, but also amongst all the data sets published in the series. This …
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