An assessment of the transportation costs of shipping non-fuel assembly hardware to FWMS facilities

Technical Report · Tue Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:10113000

Shappert, L B; Joy, D S; Johnson, P E ^[1]; Danese, F L ^[2]; Best, R E ^[3]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
2. Science Applications International Corp., Marietta, GA (United States)
3. Science Applications International Corp., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

This study examines the cost of using Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) Initiative I casks for transporting 62,700 MTU of spent fuel plus associated non-fuel assembly hardware (NFAH) between reactor sites and either a monitored retrievable storage (MRS) or a repository facility. The study further considers the benefits of increasing the cell size of the Initiative I BWR cask baskets to accommodate the fuel plus channels (which also would decrease the capacity of the cask to carry BWR fuel without channels) and the use of a commercial, non-spent-fuel cask to carry compacted NFAH that could not be shipped integrally. Costs that are developed involve transportation charges, capital costs for casks, and canning costs of NFAH that have been separated from the fuel. The results indicate that significant cost savings are possible if NFAH is accepted into the Federal Waste Management System (FWMS) that is either integral with the spent fuel, or consolidated if it has been separated. Shipment of unconsolidated NFAH is very expensive. Transportation costs for shipping to a western repository are approximately 50 to 75% higher than the costs for shipping to an eastern MRS.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 10113000
• Report Number(s): CONF-920430-22; ON: DE92005165
• Resource Relation: Conference: 3. international high level radioactive waste management (IHLRWM) conference,Las Vegas, NV (United States),12-16 Apr 1992; Other Information: PBD: [1991]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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SPENT FUELS
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
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RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
MONITORED RETRIEVABLE STORAGE
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
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