Urakami Memory and the Two Popes: The Disrupting of an Abstracted Nuclear Discourse by Gwyn McClelland

“…On 9 August 1945, a plutonium A-bomb, nicknamed ‘Fat Man’, was detonated by the United States over the northern suburb of Nagasaki known as Urakami. …”
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Application of AC superimposed DC waveforms to bismuth electrorefining by Greg Chipman, Bryant Johnson, Devin Rappleye

“…Bismuth has been identified as a potential surrogate for plutonium electrorefining and a potential cathode in electrorefining used nuclear fuel (UNF). …”
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Developing modern graphite exponential pile experiments to augment reactor physics education by Gale, Micah D. (Micah David)

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Cancer mortality and morbidity in employees of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1946-86. by Fraser, P, Carpenter, L, Maconochie, N, Higgins, C, Booth, M, Beral, V

“…Prostatic cancer mortality showed a statistically significant association with external radiation exposure, largely confined to men who were also monitored for internal contamination by radionuclides other than plutonium. Prostatic cancer mortality was highest in radiation workers at Winfrith. …”

Actinide and non-actinide production from UO2 fuel in W-SMR: Effects of gadolinium burnable absorber by Uguru, Edwin Humphrey, Sani, Siti Fairus Abdul, Khandaker, Mayeen Uddin, Rabir, Mohamad Hairie

“…The net activity of 241Pu and 239Np were respectively higher compared to other isotopes of plutonium and neptunium and slightly larger in FAs with GdBA rods. …”

Development of a DDA+PGA-combined non-destructive active interrogation system in “Active-N″ by Kazuyoshi Furutaka, Akira Ohzu, Yosuke Toh

“…The results show that the DDA system can quantify plutonium of as small as 20 mg and it is not affected by intense neutron background up to 1.57 × 107 s−1 and gamma ray of 4.43 × 1010 s−1. …”
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Advanced Heavy Water Reactor: A New Step Toward Sustainability by Ricardo Bastos Smith, Mahima Sachdeva, Indranil Bisuri, Roberto Vicente

“…It is a reactor that uses thorium as part of its fuel, which in its two fueling cycle options, in conjunction with plutonium or low enriched uranium, produces energy at the commercial level, generating less actinides of long half-life and inert thorium oxide, which leads to an optimization in the proportion of energy produced versus the production of burnt fuels of the order of up to 50%. …”
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Radioactivity releases to the environment by nuclear plants : locally and for the total fuel cycle by Marlay, Robert Charles

“…Engineering estimates of radioactive releases to the environment are summarized for each component from the 1976 report of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission entitled, "Final Generic Environmental Statement on the Use of Recycle Plutonium in Mixed Oxide Fuel and Light Water Cooled Reactors." …”
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Use of Bayesian inference to estimate diversion likelihood in a PUREX facility by Rodewald, Oliver Russell

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Nuclear Energy Production in the South China Sea basin as an International Issue(Penghasilan Tenaga Nuklear di Laut China Selatan Sebagai Isu Antarabangsa) by Mohamed, C.A.R

“…A recent investigation on seafood conducted before the Fukushima, Japan tsunami event by The Hong Kong Observatory clearly shows that artificial radionuclides such as plutonium-239, tritium, strontium-90, carbon-14, iodine-131, cesium-137 and potassium-40 were found at positive concentration levels. …”
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Engineering Separations Unit Operations for Nuclear Processing / by Peterson, Reid A., editor

Analysis of fuel performance under normal operation conditions of MicroURANUS: Micro long-life lead-bismuth-cooled fast reactor by Jiwon Mun, Hyeong-Jin Kim, Ho Jin Ryu

“…In this study, the thermal and mechanical performance of the highest linear power rod of MicroURANUS was evaluated by modifying the fuel performance code FRAPCON-4.0, which is the normal operation fuel performance code for light water reactors (LWRs). A plutonium generation model was added to consider changes in the physical properties of the UO2 fuel. …”
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Oxidative dissolution of (U,Ce)O2 materials in aqueous solutions containing H2O2 by Théo Montaigne, Stéphanie Szenknect, Véronique Broudic, Paul-Henri Imbert, Florent Tocino, Christelle Martin, Frédéric Miserque, Christophe Jégou, Nicolas Dacheux

“…The behaviour of this heterogeneous material was similar to that observed for (U,Pu)O2 in the same conditions, which revealed the reliability of cerium as a plutonium analogue.…”
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Increasing proliferation resistance of sodium fast reactor fuel cycle through use of a nuclear resonance fluorescence detector by Smith, David Ballin

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Consequence prediction in nuclear transport explosion accident using long short-term memory network by RUAN Lingpan, CHEN Chunhua, CHEN Liwei, RUAN Fang, LI Xiajuan, WANG Jianye

“…Specifically, this study considered plutonium-containing explosive transport and chemical explosion accidents under the pad surface of a hill as a research scenario. …”
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Dissolution-Desorption Dynamics of Strontium During Elution Following Evaporation: pH and Ionic Strength Effects by William C. Weaver, Tohren C. G. Kibbey, Charalambos Papelis

“…Radioactive strontium-90 (⁹⁰Sr²⁺) is a fission byproduct of uranium and plutonium production, and therefore understanding its environmental fate is of particular importance for predicting the evolution of long-term risk from historical releases. …”
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Analysis of particles containing alpha-emitters in stagnant water at torus room of Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station’s Unit 2 reactor by Takumi Yomogida, Kazuki Ouchi, Toshitaka Oka, Yoshihiro Kitatsuji, Yoshikazu Koma, Katuhiro Konno

“…We analyzed uranium (U), which is the main component of nuclear fuel, using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Other α-nuclides (plutonium [Pu], americium [Am], and curium [Cm]) were detected by alpha track detection and the morphology of particles with α-nuclides were analyzed by SEM-energy dispersive X-Ray (EDX) analysis. …”
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The study of prompt fission γ rays at the Oslo Cyclotron Laboratory by Gjestvang D., Siem S., Zeiser F., Randrup J., Vogt R., Bello-Garrote F., Bernstein L.A., Bleuel D.L., Guttormsen M., Görgen A., Larsen A.C., Malatji K.L., Matthews E., Modamio V., Oberstedt A., Oberstedt S., Tornyi T., Tveten G., Voyles A., Wilson J.

“…In order to explore the dependence of the PFG emission on the excitation energy and angular momentum of the compound nucleus, we plan several experiments where charged particle reactions are used to induce fission in various plutonium isotopes. The final results will be compared to predictions made by the Fission Reaction Event Yield Algorithm (FREYA) in an upcoming publication, to benchmark the current modelling of both the PFGs and the fission process.…”
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Impact assessment of nuclear power plant discharge on zooplankton abundance and distribution in coastal waters of Kalpakkam, India by A. L. Muthulakshmi, Usha Natesan, Vincent A. Ferrer, K. Deepthi, V. P. Venugopalan, S. V. Narasimhan

“…Conclusion Our results clearly demonstrate that heated water discharge from the Madras Atomic Power Station has a negligible effect on zooplankton population at engineered canal near Plutonium Recycle Project (station P2). There is no impact on zooplankton population due to thermal effluent discharge into the coastal area (stations P1 and P3). …”
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Analysis of radwaste accumulation in various scenarios of NP development by Andrey A. Kashirsky, Vladimir M. Solomatin, Sergey A. Panov, Elena A. Rodina, Alexander V. Egorov, Sergey A. Dmitriev, Alexey Y. Shulga

“…Based on available data, the study has shown that the implementation of the closed NFC with FNR contributes to significant reduction in the cost of disposal of radwaste compared to the scenario based exclusively on the development of VVER and open fuel cycle technologies. Recycling plutonium in fast reactors should be implemented in conjunction with MA to address environmental, non-proliferation and economic concerns of the back-end of advanced NFC. …”
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