Used TRIGA Fuel Burns Again

Used TRIGA Fuel Elements were mined out of dry storage at Idaho National Laboratory, INTEC facility and transported to Atominstitut Vienna to provide a reload LEU core to permit the long term continued operation of the research and test reactor in Vienna, Austria. After the delivery of the replacement core, the used fuel, including some HEU was packaged and shipped to Idaho National Laboratory. This story is interesting due to the mining of what was presumed to be waste material for reuse, the round trip transport of the cask, INF vessel, and the logistics of twice transiting a third country with no inherent interest in the project. We even picked up a hitch hiker from Italy along the way back.