Conveners
Session 3.1: Transportation in the back-end
- Balázs Ficker (SOM System Ltd.)
- Mina Golshan (ONR)
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition continues to conduct evaluations of removing spent nuclear fuel from shutdown nuclear power plant sites. The evaluations of the 14 shutdown sites (Maine Yankee, Yankee Rowe, Connecticut Yankee, Humboldt Bay, Big Rock Point, Rancho Seco, Trojan, La Crosse, Zion, Crystal River, Kewaunee, San Onofre, Vermont Yankee, and Fort...
In 2009, Armenian NPP switched to the fuel assemblies with higher initial enrichment that allowed them to reach higher discharge burnups. However, higher burnup that implies bigger decay heat and neutron/gamma irradiation doses requires substantial increase of precooling time in spent fuel pools to meet ANPP NUHOMS type horizontal dry spent fuel storage design acceptance criteria. This may...
A sustainable Transportation Used Fuel program could be shortly defined as a not eventful program that you rarely hear about because it is run smoothly with no or minor events. However, used fuel transports are inherently complex due to the nature of the material and the high visibility. It requires a large range of expertise, specialized assets, public acceptance and extremely high...
The performance of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) cladding during transportation and dry storage is an important consideration for demonstrating compliance with the safety-based requirements for transportation and dry storage in the United States. The structural performance of the cladding ensures that the fuel performance remains as analyzed for the transport duration or approved dry storage...
Spain, with 7 operating nuclear power reactors (NPPs) of different technologies and 3 NPPs already shut down, has adopted an open cycle strategy for the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle. All the spent fuel generated is either wet stored in the spent fuel pools or dry stored in casks from different technologies at the reactor sites. After interim storage, all the spent fuel is expected to be...
Spent fuel disposal in Finland is in the phase where Posiva is preparing for construction of the encapsulation plant and spent fuel disposal tunnels, and later submitting the operating license application. As part of the preparations, Posiva is planning the future operating phase of the spent fuel encapsulation and final disposal facility. The original operating plan has been to dispose of...
