Conveners
Session 2.1: Spent Fuel and High Level Waste storage and subsequent transportability
- Hirofumi Takeda (Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry)
- Miriam Lloret (ENUSA Industrias Avanzadas)
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) in Chalk River, Canada has two experimental long term storage programs for spent nuclear fuel: wet storage and dry storage. The objective of both programs is to determine the length of time spent nuclear fuel can be safely stored in specific environmental conditions and to characterize the condition of the fuel as a function of time via periodic...
In order to alleviate the pressure brought by the rapid growth of spent fuel in NPPs, insufficient reprocessing capacity and high construction cost, China has carried out the strategy of technology import and equipment localization to construct the PWR spent fuel dry storage project for the first time. The paper firstly introduces the project implementation strategy, product selection and...
Clab is a facility, own by Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co (SKB), for wet intermediate storage of spent nuclear fuel pending deposit in final repository. At Clab 6700 tonnes of nuclear fuel are currently stored with a residual power of about 8.3 MW. Requirements regarding ageing management programs at nuclear facilities were introduced in 2006. Two attempts to introduce ageing...
The paper describes the strategy adopted by Sellafield Ltd for management of the remaining lifetime arisings of AGR fuel from EDFE reactors. AGR reprocessing operations have completed at Sellafield but fuel will continue to be received, dismantled and consolidated in line with current practice. Spent fuel will be wet stored in existing facilities for an interim period until a disposal facility...
Neutron absorber materials (NAMs) are used in spent fuel pools (SFPs) to maintain criticality safety margins while increasing fuel storage space. SFP lifetimes are increasing, and operating experience has documented that there are a number of pools without a coupon monitoring program or with a limited number of coupon samples remaining. To address the long-term monitoring needs globally across...
The Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BfE) is the competent licensing authority for interim storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste in Germany. The concept of dry interim storage, comprises dual purpose casks equipped with a double barrier lid system with permanent monitoring of its leak-tightness.
Existing storage licences in Germany are...
