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UK / Jacobs To Study Graphite Behaviour From Reactor Cores

By David Dalton
14 May 2020

Research will support NDA with options for waste management
Jacobs To Study Graphite Behaviour From Reactor Cores
Graphite blocks in the core of an advanced gas-cooled reactor. Photo courtesy EDF.
US-based Jacobs has been chosen by Radioactive Waste Management Ltd (RWM), a subsidiary of the UK government’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, to study the release of radioactivity from irradiated graphite sampled from reactor cores at the UK’s nuclear power stations.

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