Published June 1990 | Version v1
Report

Design of spent fuel unloading and storage facilities

  • 1. Societe Generale pour les Techniques Nouvelles (SGN), 78 - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (France)
  • 2. Compagnie Generale des Matieres Nucleaires (COGEMA), 78 - Velizy-Villacoublay (France)

Description

As an architect engineering firm, SGN has designed and realized several spent fuel receiving, unloading and storage facilities and, in particular, the largest storage complex of the world at the reprocessing site at La Hague, owned by Cogema. This paper is dealing more particularly about the design and technology improvements of the unloading and storage facilities at La Hague having a direct effect on transportation cask decontamination and personnel exposure reduction. (author). 5 refs, 4 figs, 1 tab

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Decontamination of transport casks and of spent fuel storage facilities

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Decontamination of transport casks and of spent fuel storage facilities
Imprint Pagination
151 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 121-131.
Report number
IAEA-TECDOC--556

Conference

Title
Technical committee meeting on decontamination of transport casks and of spent fuel storage facilities.
Dates
4-7 Apr 1989.
Place
Vienna (Austria).

INIS

Country of Publication
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
21090127
Subject category
S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; S42: ENGINEERING; S42: ENGINEERING;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
CASKS; CONTAMINATION; DECONTAMINATION; MAINTENANCE; MANAGEMENT; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVITY; SPECIFICATIONS; SPENT FUEL STORAGE; STORAGE FACILITIES; TRANSPORT
Descriptors DEC
CLEANING; CONTAINERS; STORAGE

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