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Loscoe, 2000 - Google Patents

Transitioning metallic uranium spent nuclear fuel from wet to dry storage

Loscoe, 2000

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12705356062266637156
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Loscoe P
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Waste Management Conference

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ABSTRACT Approximately 80%(by weight) of the US Department of Energy's inventory of spent nuclear fuel is currently stored in two water-filled concrete basins a few hundred meters from the banks of the Columbia River, at the Hanford Site near Richland …
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