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Listening in real time
01 June, 2010
As the current generation of nuclear power plants settle into their middle-age, increased health monitoring is critical to their safe operation. As such, interest has been stimulated in on-line monitoring (OLM) technologies and methods to anticipate, identify, and resolve equipment and process problems to ensure plant safety and efficiency. By H.M. Hashemian

EDF reorganises to fight exposure
20 May, 2010
In 2003, French nuclear utility EDF launched a project called source term reduction that splits up the large organization into different research and engineering centres to tackle radiation exposure in complementary projects. This paper describes the main R&D developments, and the compensatory actions they are planning. By Gilles Ranchoux, Stéphane Taunier, Frédéric Gressier, Stéphanie Leclercq, Florence Carrette, Luc Guinard and Bernard Jeannin

Looking down the bore
25 March, 2010
Deep borehole waste disposition research has not progressed to demonstration. Fergus Gibb reviews the steps necessary before drilling can begin.

Reactor conversion
08 March, 2010
A 1970s project to reduce the amount of high-enriched uranium in circulation by converting research reactors to low-enriched uranium silicide fuel was mostly completed in the last decade. A promising new uranium-molybdenum fuel should finish the job. By Daniel Wachs

Clad in clay
08 March, 2010
The ceramic compound silicon carbide is more durable and less reactive than zircaloy, the dominant PWR fuel cladding. Although the road to regulatory approval is long, early test results suggest that a SiC clad over standard UO2 could increase both fuel burn-up and safety under accident conditions. By Ken Yueh, David Carpenter and Herbert Feinroth