Criticality Safety Benchmark Experiment that Tests the Waste Matrix Material Silicon Dioxide
Conference
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OSTI ID:7716
- Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company
- INEEL
- IPPE, Russia
Two series of criticality safe benchmark experiments involving fissile material (both highly enriched uranium and plutonium) interspersed in a typical waste matrix are being performed at the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE) in Obninsk, Russia. The National Spent Nuclear Fuel Program (NSNFP) at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) is sponsoring the experiments. Data will be used to validate criticality safety calculations that are being performed in support of NSNFP efforts to store highly enriched spent nuclear fuels at the United Stated geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. However, these data are applicable to a wide range of criticality safety operations involving fissile contaminated waste streams. Experimental design parameters are presented in this paper. Experimental results will be available in the Fall of 1999.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory,
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-94ID13223
- OSTI ID:
- 7716
- Report Number(s):
- INEEL/CON-99-00411; ON: DE00007716
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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