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B Demonstration Project Success Criteria and Demonstration Project Accomplishments Through October 26, 1998
Pages 29-34

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... and blend the resulting ingot with depleted uranium in the casting furnace to produce a low-enriched uranium storage ingot. Specify acceptable operating parameters and throughput for the cathode processor to meet uranium product specifications and ER production rates of 16 kg of driver uranium for 3 consecutive months.
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... Determine performance characterization with electrochemical techniques, corrosion tests, vapor hydration tests, and attribute tests. Develop metal waste process specifications for major process variables: operating temperatures, hold time, and cooling rate.
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... Demonstrate that the FCF air emissions result in an effective dose equivalent to the public less than 10 mrem per year, which is the limit in DOE 5400.5 and is less than the 25 mrem per year limit in the State of Idaho Permit to Construct Air Pollution Emitting Source. Show that FCF personnel exposure is less than 0.5 rem per year average and I.5 rem per year for the maximum individual exposure, which is a factor of 3 less than the DOE Occupational Radiation Protection Final Rule lOCFR835 limit that .
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From page 32...
... Mass balances are being prepared for uranium, plutonium, neptunium, sodium and cesium. Prepared flow sheets that list the amounts of waste generated from processing 60 metric tons of sodium bonded fuel needed for the Yucca Mountain Environmental Impact Statement.
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... cast -Cathode processor batch size increased from 12 to 17 kilograms -Casting furnace batch size increased from 36 to 54 kilograms -468 kilograms low enriched uranium shipped Blanket treatment started in August 1998 -Mark-V electrorefiner ran first batch of irradiated blankets -Results from Mark-IV anode-cathode module tests used to design Mk-V improvements -Blanket element chopper operational 33
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