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Spent Fuel Measurements

AbstractThis chapter describes the methods used to measure spent nuclear fuel. The first section describes the properties of typical reactor fuel: geometry, burnup, initial enrichment, and cooling time. Neutron multiplication in the assembly is discussed.
A. C. Kaplan-Trahan, A. P. Belian, M. Croce, D. C. Henzlova, P. Jansson, G. Long, G. E. McMath, J. R. Phillips, E. Rapisarda, M. A. Root, H. R. Trellue   +10 more
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Advanced Manufacturing of Composite‐Based Systems for Energy Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Advanced manufacturing enables the integration of polymers, ceramics, metal oxides, and composites into architected microstructures with tailored transport pathways. By coupling material selection, manufacturing strategy, and structural design, multifunctional energy systems can simultaneously improve electrochemical performance, thermal management ...
Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli, Dhanush Patil, Libin Yang, M. Taylor Sobczak, Anshul Kulkarni, Xiao Sun, Arunachalam Ramanathan, Tiantian Li, Ramaraja P. Ramasamy, Jason J. Locklin, Yanyu Chen, Xianqiao Wang, Arunachala Mada Kannan, Kenan Song   +13 more
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VHTR, ADS, and PWR Spent Nuclear Fuel Analysis

, 2016
The aim of this study is to analyze and compare the discharged-spent fuel of three types of nuclear systems: a Very High-Temperature Gas Reactor (VHTR), a lead-cooled Accelerator-Driven System (ADS) and a standard Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR). The two
Carlos Eduardo Velasquez Cabrera, Graiciany de Paula Barros, Fabiano Cardoso da Silva, Jean Anderson Dias Salomé, Claubia Pereira Bezerra Lima, Fernando Pereira Faria   +5 more
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Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder, Jelizaveta Konstantinova, Graham Deacon, Kaspar Althoefer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of spent nuclear fuel management in different developed countries

Mechanical Engineering Journal
Spent nuclear fuel (spent fuel), which is used nuclear fuel that has been exposed to radiation usually produced by nuclear reactors in nuclear power plants, is an inevitable product from the development of nuclear energy.
Lei SHI, Yihan WANG, Na MA, Hongjun LIU
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Autonomous Navigation of Pollen‐Inspired Magnetic Microrobots for Biomedical Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A sunflower pollen‐inspired magnetic microrobot enables controlled rolling navigation in vessel‐like environments. Its open geometry reduces hydrodynamic drag, while vision‐based closed‐loop control, shortest‐path planning, and reinforcement learning support target‐reaching and maze navigation with microrobot‐scale accuracy, highlighting a route toward
Ali Anil Demircali, Abdurrahim Yilmaz, Meysam Keshavarz, Jinshi Zhao, Ara Darzi, Eric Yeatman, Burak Temelkuran   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional Cooperation for Nuclear Spent Fuel Management in East Asia: Costs, Benefits and Challenges – Part I

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2018
East Asia is home to some of the most dynamic economies on earth, but also a locus of current and historical national and international conflicts. Some of the largest economies lack domestic energy resources, and nuclear power has been adopted as a ...
David F. Von Hippel, Peter Hayes
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Minimizing the Standard Deviation of the Thermal Load in the Spent Nuclear Fuel Cask Loading Problem

Energies, 2020
The paper assumes that, at the end of the operational period of a Spanish nuclear power plant, an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation will be used for long-term storage. Spent fuel assemblies are selected and transferred to casks for dry storage,
Joaquín Bautista-Valhondo, Lluís Batet, Manuel Mateo   +2 more
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Magnetically Actuated Microrobot for Drug Delivery: Current Progress and Challenges

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Magnetically actuated microrobots are reshaping targeted drug delivery through wireless propulsion, programmable materials, and localized therapeutic release. This review examines how fabrication, body material selection, structural architecture, loading mechanisms, and imaging‐guided control converge to enable microrobotic therapies while identifying ...
Yang Yang, David J. Cappelleri
wiley   +1 more source

Monte Carlo analysis of LWR spent fuel transmutation in a fusion-fission hybrid reactor system

Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2018
The aim of this paper is to determine neutronic performances of the light water reactor (LWR) spent fuel mixed with fertile thorium fuel in a FFHR.
Sümer Şahi̇n, Hacı Mehmet Şahin, Güven Tunç   +2 more
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