48-Pack low level waste storage facility
- ComEd, Downers Grove, IL (United States)
ComEd has completed a design for a low level radioactive waste (LLW) storage facility, dubbed the {open_quotes}48-Pack{close_quotes}. The 48-Pack, so named because of its ability to hold 48 high integrity containers (HICs), is a modular, heavily shielded, concrete bunker. The facility was designed to serve as an effective means of augmenting the Company`s existing process waste storage capacity if and when the need arose. This paper identifies how ComEd addressed the potential need to supplement the storage capacity at its six nuclear stations through the development of the 48-Pack. Based on the criteria of meeting safety and regulatory requirements, low cost, short lead time for construction, universal design, and modularity, the 48-Pack concept was anticipated to meet and exceed the Company`s storage needs which were anticipated to end with the availability of a Central Midwest Compact (CMC) disposal facility.
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst. (EPRI), Palo Alto, CA (United States); Williams (Paul) and Associates, Medina, OH (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 229816
- Report Number(s):
- EPRI-TR-105569; CONF-950718-; TRN: 96:002003-0006
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Electric Power Research Institute low-level waste conference, Orlando, FL (United States), 10-12 Jul 1995; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of 1995 EPRI international low-level waste conference. Proceedings; PB: 600 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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