【本刊2013年5月综合报道】美国能源部于2013年4月16日宣布将开展一项乏燃料干法贮存研发项目。该项目将设计和示范用于贮存高燃耗乏燃料的干法贮存容器技术。燃料燃耗与核电机组从燃料中提取出的能量数量密切相关。在过去几年中,美国在燃料技术方面取得了许多进步,核电机组的燃料燃耗因此得到不断提高,从而使核电运营商从燃料中提取的能量数量接近翻番。能源部已研究了商业核电站用于对乏燃料进行 [May 2013] INTRODUCTION The U.S. Department of Energy announced on April 16, 2013 a R & D project for dry storage of spent fuel. The project will design and demonstrate dry storage container technology for storing spent fuel depleted. Fuel burnup is closely related to the amount of energy extracted by the nuclear power plant from fuel. In the past few years, the United States has made many advances in fuel technology. As a result, the fuel consumption of nuclear power generating units has been continuously raised, thus doubling the amount of energy that nuclear power operators can draw from fuel. DOE has studied commercial nuclear power plants for spent fuel