Acknowledgements This study was carried out under a contract with METI (Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry) of Japanese Government in fiscal year of 2012 as part of its R&D
supporting program for developing geological disposal technology.
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Economy, Trade and Industry) of Japanese Government in fiscal year of 2012 as part of its R&D
supporting program for developing geological disposal technology.
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1. K. Nishihara, H. Iwamoto, K. Suyama, Estimation of Fuel Compositions in Fukushima-Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant. JAEA-Data/Code 2012–018, Japan Atomic Energy Agency (2012)
2. X. Liu, J. Ahn, F. Hirano, Conditions for criticality by uranium deposition in water-saturated
geological formations. J. Nucl. Sci. Technol. 52(3), 416–425 (2014)
3. X. Liu, J. Ahn, F. Hirano, A Criticality Safety Study for the Disposal of Damaged Fuel Debris,
Proc. IHLRWM 2015, Charleston, South Carolina, April 12–16 (2015) (Accepted)
4. Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Report on Technology Development for Direct
Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel, Project for Technology Investigation for Geological Disposal,
(in Japanese) (2014), http://www.enecho.meti.go.jp/category/electricity_and_gas/nuclear/rw/
library/2013/25-11-1.pdf
5. Reflections on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident, pp. 51–84, JOONHONG AHN,
CATHRYN CARSON, MIKAEL JENSEN, KOHTA JURAKU, SHINYA NAGASAKI, and
SATORU TANAKA Ed., Springer (2014)
6. Three Mile Island Nuclear Station Unit II Defueling Completion Report, GPU (1990)
7. X-5 Monte Carlo Team, MCNP - Version 5, Vol. I: Overview and Theory, LA-UR-03-1987,
(2003)
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing,
adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate
credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and
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