"The Nuclear Fuel Cycle" - Errata
P 35§2.4.7, line 1 Ammonium, not uranium, diuranate
P 83§5.3.7 Half-life of Np-239 is 2.36 days, not 23.6
P 117Table 7.1 THORP started in 1994, not 1964; Rokkashamura 1998?
P119Fig. 7.2 Feed pond, not receipt
P174Table 9.3 Omitted
Table 9.3. Typical ILW streams at Sellafield
Category
Cladding & dissolver residues:
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Reactor dismantling debris:
Sludges:
Effluent treatment:
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Technological:
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PCM:
Typical Streams
Magnox and aluminium swarf, stainless steel and Zircaloy fuel hulls and ends, centrifuge cake (collected dissolver solids)
Stainless steel, graphite sleeves
Corroded Magnox, fuel pond sludges
Ferric hydroxide flocs, natural ion exchanger, synthetic zeolite from liquid effluent treatment and barium carbonate slurry from aerial effluent treatment
Filters, solid scrap items, combustible waste (either low alpha, high beta/gamma or high alpha, low beta/gamma)
Glove-box wastes
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