Signatures of Extended Storage of Used Nuclear Fuel Comprehensive Final Report

Technical Report · Wed Sep 21 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1327981· OSTI ID:1327981

Rauch, Eric Benton ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

This report serves as a comprehensive overview of the Extended Storage of Used Nuclear Fuel work performed for the Material Protection, Accounting and Control Technologies campaign under the Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy. This paper describes a signature based on the source and fissile material distribution found within a population of used fuel assemblies combined with the neutron absorbers found within cask design that is unique to a specific cask with its specific arrangement of fuel. The paper describes all the steps used in producing and analyzing this signature from the beginning to the project end.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1327981
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-16-27217; TRN: US1700330
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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