Long-term storage of spent fuel
Description
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1983 authorized cooperative agreements between the Department of Energy (DOE) and the utilities to perform tests and demonstrations required to license dry storage of spent fuels. This presentation describes tests and demonstrations of dry storage and rod consolidation by the utilities and DOE. The utilities are now able to temporarily accommodate their increasing inventory of spent fuels. However, this is a temporary solution, for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensed this technology for only 20 years, anticipating that the fuel would later be disposed through the interim integrated monitored retrievable storage and repository disposal programs. (AT)
Availability note (English)
Available from NTIS, PC A02/MF A01; 1 as DE87012174.
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Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 5 p.
- Report number
- PNL-SA--14822-S
Conference
- Title
- 1. Carver Research Foundation conference on issues pertinent to radioactive waste processing, management and disposal.
- Dates
- 3 Apr 1987.
- Place
- Tuskegee, AL (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 19018484
- Subject category
- S42: ENGINEERING;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CASKS; CLADDING; COORDINATED RESEARCH PROGRAMS; CREEP; DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS; DRY STORAGE; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES; LICENSING; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACTS; SHIELDING; SPECIFICATIONS; SPENT FUELS; STRESSES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; US DOE; US NRC
- Descriptors DEC
- ATOMIC ENERGY LAW; CONTAINERS; DEPOSITION; ENERGY SOURCES; FUELS; LAW; MATERIALS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEAR FUELS; POWER PLANTS; PUBLIC UTILITIES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; REACTOR MATERIALS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; STORAGE; SURFACE COATING; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTES
Optional Information
- Notes
- Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products.
- Secondary number(s)
- CONF-8704195--1.