Handling of multiassembly sealed baskets between reactor storage and a remote handling facility: Final report

Technical Report · Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989

OSTI ID:5965434

Massey, J V; Kessler, J H; McSherry, A J

The storage of multiple fuel assemblies in sealed (welded) dry storage baskets is gaining increasing use to augment at-reactor fuel storage capacity. Since this increasing use will place a significant number of such baskets on reactor sites, some initial downstream planning for their future handling scenarios for retrieving multi-assembly sealed baskets (MSBs) from onsite storage and transferring and shipping the fuel (and/or the baskets) to a federally operated remote handling facility (RHF). Numerous options or at-reactor and away-from-reactor handling were investigated. Materials handling flowsheets were developed along with conceptual designs for the equipment and tools required to handle and open the MSBs. The handling options were evaluated and compared to a reference case, fuel handling sequence (i.e., fuel assemblies are taken from the fuel pool, shipped to a receiving and handling facility and placed into interim storage). The main parameters analyzed are throughout, radiation dose burden and cost. In addition to evaluating the handling of MSBs, this work also evaluated handling consolidated fuel canisters (CFCs). In summary, the handling of MSBs and CFCs in the store, ship and bury fuel cycle was found to be feasible and, under some conditions, to offer significant benefits in terms of throughput, cost and safety. 14 refs., 20 figs., 24 tabs.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA); Sierra Nuclear Corp., Los Gatos, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5965434
• Report Number(s): EPRI-NP-6409
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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