Juvenile turbot Scophthalmus maximus were kept in captivity and were fed a prepared food contaminated with 5 levels of seawater-accommodated fuel oil, from 2.4 ± 0.35 to 48.2 ± 2.2 mg g–1 food. Oil that had been recovered from that released by the tanker ‘Prestige’ was used. Fish (n = 202) were individually tagged while length and weight were recorded. They were then placed randomly in 6 differ...

High pellets ratio operation forced by burden material restrictions at Kobe Steel resulted in the development of a center coke charging process based on centralized gas flow principle. This methodology produced a novel approach to burden distribution, coal combustion and pellets operation, in which these processes are viewed as part of a chain reaction. As a result of these developments, furnac...

Current research has identified Duplex pellets as an effective strategy for decreasing the centerline temperature of the fuel. However, before this design can be widely utilized several areas, including fission gas release, need to be better characterized. Therefore, this paper seeks to ascertain the relative difference in fission gas release between a standard solid UO2 reference design and a ...

Improved nondestructive assay of isotopic masses in used nuclear fuel would be valuable for nuclear safeguards operations associated with the transport, storage, and reprocessing of used nuclear fuel. Our collaboration is examining the feasibility of using lead slowing-down spectrometry techniques to assay the isotopic fissile masses in used nuclear fuel assemblies. We present the application o...

It is generally recognized that the spent fuel discharged from nuclear power plants constitutes the main contribution to nuclear waste. The management of spent fuel from nuclear power plants differs depending on the perspectives and scenarios posed by the countries directly concerned. However, there is a general consensus on the need for a deep geological repository and a reduction in the burde...

We introduce the FronTier-Lite software package and its adaptation to the TSTT geometry and mesh entity data interface. This package is extracted from the original front tracking code for general purpose scientific and engineering applications. The package contains a static interface library and a dynamic front propagation library. It can be used in research of different scientific problems. We...

A new acoustical sensing system for the nuclear power industry has been developed at The Pennsylvania State University in collaboration with Idaho National Laboratories. This sensor uses the high temperatures of nuclear fuel to convert a nuclear fuel rod into a standing-wave thermoacoustic engine. When a standing wave is generated, the sound wave within the fuel rod will be propagated, by acous...

A recent report by Lyttle et al. (Lyttle, C. R., Medlock, R. L., and Sheehan, D. M. (1984) J. Biol. Chem. 259, 2697-2700) suggested that nuclear type II sites in the rat uterus are of eosinophil origin and may represent [3H]estradiol binding to eosinophil peroxidase. To further evaluate this hypothesis we examined the response of nuclear type II sites to estrogen under conditions where eosinoph...