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• Spent nuclear fuel shipping cask — A typical SNF shipping cask mounted on a railroad car. Spent nuclear fuel shipping casks are used to transport spent nuclear fuel used in nuclear power plants and research reactors to disposal sites such as the nuclear reprocessing center at… …   Wikipedia

• cask — a wooden, cylindrical vessel used for shipping fish such as dried and salted cod from Newfoundland. Such a cask contained 4 cwt (hundredweight, 1 cwt being 50.802 kg (long), 45.359 kg (short)) …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• Dry cask storage — Example of a dry cask storage area. Dry cask storage is a method of storing high level radioactive waste, such as spent nuclear fuel that has already been cooled in the spent fuel pool for at least one year.[1]. These casks are typically …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear flask — This article is about the United Kingdom nuclear waste trasportation flask. For other countries, see Spent nuclear fuel shipping cask. Wagon with transport cabin containing a nuclear waste flask, at Bristol A nuclear flask is a shipping container …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear fuel cycle — The nuclear fuel cycle, also called nuclear fuel chain, is the progression of nuclear fuel through a series of differing stages. It consists of steps in the front end, which are the preparation of the fuel, steps in the service period in which… …   Wikipedia

• Spent fuel pool — (SFP) are storage pools for spent fuel from nuclear reactors. Typically 40 or more feet deep, with the bottom 14 feet equipped with storage racks designed to hold fuel assemblies removed from the reactor. These fuel pools are specially designed… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear reprocessing — technology was developed to chemically separate and recover fissionable plutonium from irradiated nuclear fuel.[1] Reprocessing serves multiple purposes, whose relative importance has changed over time. Originally reprocessing was used solely to… …   Wikipedia

• Nuclear safety — covers the actions taken to prevent nuclear and radiation accidents or to limit their consequences. This covers nuclear power plants as well as all other nuclear facilities, the transportation of nuclear materials, and the use and storage of… …   Wikipedia

• List of nuclear waste treatment technologies — The following list shows different methods of treating and disposing of nuclear waste:*Deep geological repository *Dry cask storage *Ducrete *Ocean floor disposal *Saltcrete *Spent fuel pool *Spent nuclear fuel shipping cask *Synroc *Waste… …   Wikipedia

• MOX fuel — Mixed oxide fuel, commonly referred to as MOX fuel, is nuclear fuel that contains more than one oxide of fissile material. MOX fuel contains plutonium blended with natural uranium, reprocessed uranium, or depleted uranium. MOX fuel is an… …   Wikipedia

• PUREX — is the de facto standard aqueous nuclear reprocessing method for the recovery of uranium and plutonium from used nuclear fuel. It is based on liquid liquid extraction ion exchange. For other methods of reprocessing, see nuclear… …   Wikipedia