Review Article
Radiation Effects on Materials Used in Geological Repositories for Spent Nuclear Fuel
Table 1
Average alpha dose rate for different fuel ages and burnups [
24].
| Fuel age (years) | Dose rate (Gy s−1) | 38 MWd kg−1 | 55 MWd kg−1 |
| 102 | 1.19 × 10−1 | 1.71 × 10−1 | 103 | 2.87 × 10−2 | 3.11 × 10−2 | 104 | 5.90 × 10−3 | 6.06 × 10−3 | 105 | 5.44 × 10−4 | 7.11 × 10−4 |
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