Summary: | This text covers the advances in fuel handling and fuel management and their impact in increasing reactor availability. Topics covered include: fuel handling safety cases and supporting data; fuel handling equipment and facilities; sodium-cooled reactor handling equipment; failed duel detection and repair; fuel management methods, applications and optimization; plutonium strategies and technologies; and storage, disposal options and facilities. Consisting of more than 50 papers, these conference proceedings draw on the experience of nuclear engineers from around the world to form a reference work on the safety and engineering aspects of fuel handling, and fuel management strategies.
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