Some alternatives for DOE acceptance and storage of spent fuel in 1998 and 1999
- 1. Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
- 2. Johnson (E.R.) Associates, Inc., Oakton, VA (USA)
Description
Under the Standard Contract for Disposal of Spent Fuel and High-Level Waste (10 CFR 961), the Department of Energy (DOE) will accept spent fuel for disposal from current owners. Current projections (DOE 1989a) suggest 2010 as the earliest date for the availability of a geologic repository for the disposal of spent fuel. In addition, DOE (1989a) suggests that a monitored retrievable storage (MRS) facility with full hot cell capabilities could not be in full service until 2000. As a result, there is a period of about two years wherein DOE is expected to receive and store spent fuel, but during which none of the proposed Federal Waste Management System (FWMS) facilities would be fully functional. During early 1990, a study was initiated to identify, describe, and provide a preliminary evaluation of some short-term alternatives that would permit DOE to accept and store spent fuel during this period. This paper summarizes some key results of this study. 4 refs., 1 fig., 4 tabs
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 7 p.
- Report number
- PNL-SA--18271
Conference
- Title
- American Nuclear Society (ANS) international meeting on radioactive waste technologies, decontamination, and hazardous wastes.
- Acronym
- Spectrum '90
- Dates
- 30 Sep - 4 Oct 1990.
- Place
- Knoxville, TN (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22032307
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S42: ENGINEERING;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BWR TYPE REACTORS; CASKS; PWR TYPE REACTORS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE; RAIL TRANSPORT; REGULATIONS; ROAD TRANSPORT; SPENT FUEL STORAGE; SPENT FUELS; US DOE; US MRS PROJECT
- Descriptors DEC
- CONTAINERS; ENERGY SOURCES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FUELS; LAND TRANSPORT; LAWS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEAR FUELS; POWER REACTORS; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; STORAGE; THERMAL REACTORS; TRANSPORT; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE STORAGE; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract AC06-76RL01830
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-900977--6.