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Spent fuel storage periods well beyond those originally foreseen are a reality. This publication offers several ideas and approaches that may be considered to address the increasingly longer storage times. The aim is to raise awareness, encourage dialogue and provide ideas on how to manage spent fuel. Key messages include the following:
- Delays in reprocessing or disposal could result in spent fuel being stored for 100 years or longer. Safe, secure and effective storage of spent fuel manages fuel degradation while preserving future fuel cycle options.
- Ageing management programmes apply engineering, operations and maintenance actions to ensure safety is maintained during storage, future handling and transport.
- Site selection and facility and equipment design can significantly reduce the risks and costs of spent fuel storage over longer periods.
- Spent fuel storage configurations can be selected to accommodate uncertain storage periods, to facilitate ageing management and to provide flexibility needed to accommodate the uncertainty of future end points, such as reprocessing or disposal.
- By considering multiple licence renewals, regulatory frameworks can be designed to ensure safe storage until an acceptable end point is achieved.
- Safety can be assured by maintaining shielding, containment, decay heat removal and criticality control. Navigating the complexity of societal beliefs and values, as well as political systems, has proven to be a greater challenge for the management of spent fuel than maintaining its safety and security or addressing the technical and economic aspects.
- Sustainable spent fuel management requires policies and strategies to provide a clear, consistent and stable direction because they drive the need for spent fuel storage as well as the available options and timing for achieving an acceptable end point. Unless States address spent fuel reprocessing and disposal on a sufficient scale to accommodate their spent fuel discharges, then storage for longer and longer periods becomes the de facto end point — which is not considered to be consistent with the responsibility to protect human health and the environment.
An effective, periodic licence renewal process can ensure effective ageing management and strong institutional control. Hence, spent fuel can be safely and securely stored for as long as it may be necessary until transport for reprocessing or disposal. However, the risks and costs of storing the growing inventory of spent fuel will continue to increase; and in the absence of an end point, it will eventually become a significant societal burden.
Despite their enormous diversity, the bauplan of adult winged insects (pterygotes) is remarkably conservative since the Lower Devonian: a five-segmented head, a three-segmented thorax with three pairs of walking legs and an eleven-segmented abdomen without any non-sexual appendages 1 and 2. The only known exceptions are the abdominal appendages of adult male sepsid flies on the fourth segment; however, these are also used as copulatory organs and are supposedly maintained through sexual selection [3]. Here, we report a rod-like paired appendage from the third and fourth abdominal segments in adults of the Southeast-Asian Hemiptera taxon Bennini (Figure 1A,B; Supplemental information). These are fully musculated, innervated, and movable and bear highly organized sensory and secretory units. The appendages, termed LASSO (lateral abdominal sensory and secretory organs), are consistent in topology and structure in all species studied and not sexually dimorphic. The existence of these non-sexual abdominal appendages reveals the potential of the 300 million year old conserved bauplan of insects.
The molecular dynamics of two addition type polynorbornenes, exo-PNBSiand PTCNSi1, bearing microporosity has been investigated by broadbanddielectric spectroscopy, fast scanning calorimetry, and neutron scattering. Bothpolymers have the same side groups but different backbones. Due to theirfavorable transport properties, these polymers have potential applications inseparation membranes for gases. It is established in literature that molecularfluctuations are important for the diffusion of small molecules through poly-mers. For exo-PNBSi, two dielectric processes are observed, which are assignedto Maxwell/Wagner/Sillars (MWS) process due to blocking of charge carriersat internal voids or pore walls. For PTCNSi1, one MWS-polarization process isfound. This points to a bimodal pore-size distribution for exo-PNBSi. A glasstransition for exo-PNBSi and for PTCNSi1 could be evidenced for the first timeusing fast scanning calorimetry. For Tgand the corresponding apparent activa-tion energy, higher values were found for PTCNSi1 compared to exo-PNBSi.For both polymers, the neutron scattering data reveal one relaxation process.This process is mainly assigned to methyl group rotation probably overlayedby carbon–carbon torsional fluctuations.
Die Zielsetzung dieses Projektes war es, ein kombiniertes Schutzsystem aus Spritzverzinkung und abdichtendem Oberflächenschutzsystem für die Instandsetzung chloridbelasteter und korrosionsgeschädigter Stahlbetonbauteile zu entwickeln. Dabei soll die Spritzverzinkung der Betonoberfläche in den ersten Jahren nach der Instandsetzung einen kathodischen Korrosionsschutz der Bewehrung bewirken, bis der Beton infolge des Oberflächenschutzsystems soweit ausgetrocknet ist, dass auch ohne kathodischen Schutz praktisch keine Korrosion der Bewehrung mehr stattfinden kann.
Anhand von Untersuchungen zur Haftung zwischen Beton, Zinkschicht und verschiedenen Oberflächenschutzsystemen wurde der Aufbau des kombinierten Schutzsystems entwickelt. Es wurden verschiedene OS-11a-Systeme ein OS-13-System sowie zwei Systeme nach ZTV-ING, Teil 7 vor und nach künstlicher Bewitterung untersucht. Anhand der Ergebnisse wurde für das kombinierte System ein OS-11a-System ausgewählt und im weiteren hinsichtlich der Wirksamkeit des kathodischen Schutzes sowie hinsichtlich der Austrocknung des Betons untersucht.
Es zeigte sich sowohl an ausgelagerten Prüfköpfen sowie auf einer angelegten Versuchsfläche auf Freideck eines Parkhauses, dass ein wirksamer galvanischer kathodischer Korrosionsschutz der Bewehrung nur bei sehr hohen Chloridgehalten (4 M.-% bezogen auf den Zementgehalt) erreicht werden kann. Bei geringeren untersuchten Chloridgehalten kam es vermutlich infolge der Austrocknung der Zink/Beton-Kontaktzone nach relativ kurzer Zeit zu einer Inaktivierung des Zinks. Bei Chloridgehalten von 4 M.-% bildeten sich zwischen der Zinkschicht und dem ausgewählten OS-System gasgefüllte Blasen. Diese Problematik, sowie die Tatsache dass die Wirksamkeit des Prinzips W (Austrocknung des Betons) bei derart hohen Chloridgehalten bezweifelt werden muss, grenzt die Anwendbarkeit des Kombinationssystems mit der Zinkschicht als Opferanode deutlich ein.
An neun Jahre alten, ausgelagerten Prüfköpfen durchgeführte Untersuchungen zeigten jedoch, dass mittels Fremdstrombeaufschlagung zwischen Zinkschicht und Bewehrung ein wirksamer kathodischer Schutz auch bei geringeren Chloridgehalten erreicht werden kann. Der Einsatz des entwickelten Kombinationssystems mit Fremdstrombeaufschlagung erscheint somit durchaus durchführbar. Dabei sollte der Fremdstrom jedoch vorsichtig dosiert werden, um den Haftverbund zum Zink nicht zu sehr zu schwächen.
Das Ziel des Vorhabens wurde somit erreicht.
Flame retarded poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT) is required for electronic applications and is mostly achieved by low molar mass additives so far. Three phosphorus-containing polyesters are suggested as halogen-free and polymeric flame retardants for PBT. Flame retardancy was achieved according to cone calorimeter experiments showing that the peak heat release rate and total heat evolved were reduced because of flame inhibition and condensed-phase activity. The presented polymers containing derivatives of 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide form immiscible blend systems with PBT. Shear-rheology shows an increase in storage moduli at low frequencies. This is proposed as quantitative measure for the degree of phase interaction. The phase structure of the blends depends on the chemical structure of the phosphorus polyester and was quite different, depending also on the viscosity ratio between matrix and second phase. A lower viscosity ratio leads to two types of phases with spherical and additionally continuous droplets. Addition of the flame retardants showed no influence on the dielectric properties but on the mechanical behavior. The polymeric flame retardants significantly diminish the impact strength because of several reasons: (1) high brittleness of the phosphorus polyesters themselves, (2) thermodynamic immiscibility, and (3) weak phase adhesion. By adding a copolymer consisting of the two base polymers to the blend, an improvement of impact strength was obtained. The copolymer particularly acts as compatibilizer between the phases and therefore leads to a smaller phase size and to a stronger phase adhesion due to the formation of fibrils.
A combination of 3D micro X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (3D micro-XRF) and micro-XRF was utilized for the investigation of a small collection of highly heterogeneous, partly degraded Dead Sea Scroll parchment samples from known excavation sites. The quantitative combination of the two techniques proves to be suitable for the identification of reliable marker elements which may be used for classification and provenance studies. With 3D micro-XRF, the three-dimensional nature, i.e. the depth-resolved elemental composition as well as density variations, of the samples was investigated and bromine could be identified as a suitable marker element. It is shown through a comparison of quantitative and semiquantitative values for the bromine content derived using both techniques that, for elements which are homogeneously distributed in the sample matrix, quantification with micro-XRF using a one-layer model is feasible. Thus, the possibility for routine provenance studies using portable micro-XRF instrumentation on a vast amount of samples, even on site, is obtained through this work.