Conveners
Session 7.1: Challenges in an integrated approach for the back-end system
- Brett Carlsen (Idaho National Laboratory)
- IGOR SEELEV
Since 2013 the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy began developing the Execution Strategy Analysis (ESA) tool that is both a subject matter expert elicitation process and a dynamic simulation modelling capability for use in the analysis of alternative implementation strategies and plans associated with an integrated nuclear waste management program. Early ESA models were used...
Orano TN the logistics division of Orano has developed a Global Acceptance model. The presentation will elaborate on the methodology and give some example of how the GA model has been used for new build equipment and international transports
Communication tools and speed have drastically changed compared to 20 years ago.
Many stakeholders from national to local levels can raise questions and...
In the United States, an approach to manage the aging of spent fuel dry storage systems was created by contributions from the regulatory body, storage facility owners, cask vendors, and the engineering community. The U.S. regulations for storing spent fuel beyond the first approved storage term require aging management activities to ensure that materials degradation will not adversely affect...
Fukushima drew attention to the problem of “what to do with the spent nuclear fuels that are generated, stored, accumulated, or “stranded” at nuclear power plants?” This problem is not confined only to Fukushima, Japan, but is faced by all nuclear power programs. The debate on spent fuel management has centered on what to do with plutonium, a by-product of nuclear fission. Countries concerned...
Nuclear infrastructure development is vital for the effective implementation of the nuclear energy programme (including the construction and maintenance of nuclear power plants) because it helps to minimize the potential risks that may arise during the planning, construction and operation of nuclear facilities. The report addresses key issues in the development of national policies,...
The various options for the management of spent fuel (SF) from nuclear power reactors is a topic that has been debated from multiple dimensions, being it the socio-political concerns with regard to geological disposal, the technical-economic competitiveness of options such as reprocessing and recycling, as well as from the growing discussion on sustainability and international policy.
Many of...
