Preliminary evaluation of the transportation cost for PWR spent fuels in Korea

It is expected that a substantial amount of spent fuels will be transported from the four nuclear power plant sites in Korea to a hypothetical centralized interim storage facility or a final repository in the near future. The cost for the transportation is proportional to the amount of spent fuels. In this paper we established a cost estimate model based on the conceptual design of a transportation system and a logistics analysis. Using the developed model, the transportation cost for PWR spent fuels from the Yonggwang nuclear power plants to a centralized interim storage facility and a final repository was estimated. The result shows that the unit transportation cost is around 36 million won per one TU of spent fuel