Engineering Design Principles for Commercial Spent Fuel and Waste Treatment
- Nexia Solutions Ltd, Risley, Warrington, Cheshire WA (United Kingdom)
BNFL has extensive experience of process design, build, commissioning, operation and decommissioning of commercial nuclear processing plant. Nexia Solutions (formally BNFL's R and D division) has always defined and undertaken the extensive development programmes necessary to underpin the design at all stages of the project life-cycle. Nexia Solutions has built up a large portfolio of plant designs for a range of spent fuel applications, from fuel conditioning to partitioning and transmutation. In addition, by investigation of a large and diverse portfolio of technologies Nexia Solutions has developed innovative concepts for plant design that could present significant economic savings on conventional approaches. Using this experience and the lessons learned, Nexia Solutions has developed and refined its own engineering design principles necessary for the successful design of commercial spent fuel and waste treatment plant. Nexia Solutions advocates an integral approach, with both science and engineering designs working in parallel during development. Case studies will be presented to demonstrate how this approach has been adopted and the benefits that have been gained. The paper will outline the principles employed and demonstrate their potential effectiveness for any major nuclear process plant new build initiatives, both in the UK and internationally. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, 1628 E. Southern Avenue, Suite 9 - 332, Tempe, AZ 85282 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 21294726
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-09-WM-07372; TRN: US10V0256040916
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM'07: 2007 Waste Management Symposium - Global Accomplishments in Environmental and Radioactive Waste Management: Education and Opportunity for the Next Generation of Waste Management Professionals, Tucson, AZ (United States), 25 Feb - 1 Mar 2007; Other Information: Country of input: France; 2 refs
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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