Open AccessDemonstrating the Feasibility of Molten Aluminum for Destroying Polymeric Encapsulants in SNG-Bearing Metallographic Mounts
Author(s) -
Dan Stout,
Scott Ploger
Publication year - 2004
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/829956
Subject(s) - spent nuclear fuel , metallography , rod , materials science , radiolysis , metallurgy , bearing (navigation) , aluminium , nuclear fuel , waste management , nuclear engineering , engineering , irradiation , computer science , nuclear physics , microstructure , artificial intelligence , medicine , alternative medicine , physics , pathology
DOE-owned spent nuclear fuel (SNF) rods have been cross sectioned and mounted for metallography throughout the history of nuclear reactors. Many hundreds of these ''met mounts'' have accumulated in storage across the DOE complex. However, because of potential hydrogen generation from radiolysis of the polymeric encapsulants, the met mounts are problematic for eventual disposal in a geologic repository