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C BASE CASE ONCE-THROUGH URANIUM FUEL CYCLE FOR LIGHT-WATER REACTOR WITH GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORY
C BASE CASE ONCE-THROUGH URANIUM FUEL CYCLE FOR LIGHT-WATER REACTOR WITH GEOLOGICAL REPOSITORY
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* This appendix was written by Nolan Rasmussen with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Allen Croft with the Oakridge National Laboratory.
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The technical data used in this filet cycle are taken Tom the textbook Nuclear Chemical Engineering by Benedict, Pigford, and Levi, 2nd edition, McGraw Hill, New York, 1981. Uranium, Metric Tons (T)
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It is usually carried out near the mine and removed from population. Public Health: This process is a predominant contributor to occupational dose and dose to the public.
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Public Health: This process would be a small contributor to the cycle's public health effects.
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Public Health: There are some occupational health issues -- small public health concerns.
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It would be restricted to an industrial zone. Uranium separated from its daughter products is only weakly radioactive.
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Uranium separated from its daughter products is only weakly radioactive. Public Health: This process would be a small contributor to the cycle's public health effects.
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Output: 25.9 T uranium 0.83% 23su as UO2. By-products: See enclosed tables giving concentrations of major radionuclides in spent pressurized water reactor fuel (Appendix A.1, ORNL/TM-7431)
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Once identified, leaking file} assemblies are placed in special containers maintained for this purpose. Public Health: There is some exposure of workers at facility.
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Public Health: There is some exposure of workers at facility. There is very little impact on the public from this operation.
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. Public Health: Impacts are predicted to be extremely small, except to an intruder.
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