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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)On August 3, 2007, President George W. Bush signed into law H.R. 1: Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007. The law mandates that 100% of air and maritime cargo must be scanned prior to entering ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)The internally and externally cooled annular fuel is a new type of fuel for PWRs that enables an increase in core power density by 50% within the same or better safety margins as the traditional solid fuel. Each annular ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This study assesses the neutronic, thermal-hydraulic, and fuel performance aspects of using nitride fuel in place of oxides in Pu-based high conversion light water reactor designs. Using the higher density nitride fuel ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The U.S. Department of Energy recently filed a motion to withdraw the Nuclear Regulatory Commission license application for the High Level Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. As the U.S. has focused exclusively ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)With the advent of new and innovative Generation-IV reactor designs, new regulations must be developed to assure the safety of these plants. In the past a purely deterministic way of developing design basis accidents was ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This thesis analyzes the feasibility of emplacing DOE-owned defense nuclear waste from weapons production into a permanent borehole repository drilled ~4 km into granite basement rock. Two canister options were analyzed ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)The feasibility of using various uranium-free fuels for plutonium incineration in present light water reactors is investigated. Two major categories of inert matrix fuels are studied: composite ceramic fuel particles ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The most prevalent criticism of fission-fusion hybrids is simply that they are too exotic - that they would exacerbate the challenges of both fission and fusion. This is not really true. Intriguingly, hybrids could actually ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)For decay heat removal systems in the conceptual Gas-cooled Fast Reactor (GFR) currently under development, passive emergency cooling using natural circulation of a gas at an elevated pressure is being considered. Since ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The limiting factor in current designs for fast reactors is not only the reactivity, but also the maximum permissible fast-neutron fluence in the cladding, especially for reduced uranium enrichment cores using high-albedo ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Introduction: Introduction: The world today contains an estimated 6.7 billion humans, and our population is growing at an unprecedented rate, consuming an ever-increasing amount of global resources. According to United ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)With the advancement of the next generation of nuclear fuel cycle facilities, concerns of the effectiveness of nuclear facility safeguards have been increasing due to the inclusion of highly enriched material and reprocessing ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)The MIT Nuclear Research Reactor (MITR) is the only research reactor in the United States that utilizes plate-type fuel elements with longitudinal fins to augment heat transfer. Recent studies on the conversion to low-enriched ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964)
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