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Title: Consolidation and disposal of PWR fuel inserts

Abstract

Design and licensing of the Surry Power Station Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation was initiated in 1982 by Virginia Power as part of a comprehensive strategy to increase spent fuel storage capacity at the Station. Designed to use large, metal dry storage casks, the Surry Installation will accommodate 84 such casks with a total storage capacity of 811 MTU of spent pressurized water reactor fuel assemblies. Virginia Power provided three storage casks for testing at the Idaho National Engineerinq Laboratory's Test Area North and the testing results have been published by the Electric Power Research Institute. Sixty-nine spent fuel assemblies were transported in truck casks from the Surry Power Station to Test Area North for testing in the three casks. Because of restrictions imposed by the cask testing equipment at Test Area North, the irradiated insert components stored in these fuel assemblies at Surry were removed prior to transport of the fuel assemblies. Retaining these insert components proved to be a problem because of a shortage of spent fuel assemblies in the spent fuel storage pool that did not already contain insert components. In 1987 Virginia Power contracted with Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc. to process and dispose of 136 irradiated insertmore » components consisting of 125 burnable poison rod assemblies, 10 thimble plugging devices and 1 part-length rod cluster control assembly. This work was completed in August and September 1987, culminating in the disposal at the Barnwell, SC low-level radioactive waste facility of two CNS 3-55 liners containing the consolidated insert components.« less

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Virginia Electric and Power Co., Glen Allen, VA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Electric Power Research Inst. (EPRI), Palo Alto, CA (United States); Virginia Electric and Power Co., Glen Allen, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
7077152
Report Number(s):
EPRI-TR-101092; PNL-7334
DOE Contract Number:  
AC06-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; CONTROL ELEMENTS; CONTAMINATION; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; BURNABLE POISONS; CUTTING; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; PWR TYPE REACTORS; SPENT FUEL STORAGE; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; MACHINING; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; NEUTRON ABSORBERS; NUCLEAR POISONS; POWER REACTORS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; STORAGE; THERMAL REACTORS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS; 052002* - Nuclear Fuels- Waste Disposal & Storage

Citation Formats

Wakeman, B H. Consolidation and disposal of PWR fuel inserts. United States: N. p., 1992. Web. doi:10.2172/7077152.
Wakeman, B H. Consolidation and disposal of PWR fuel inserts. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/7077152
Wakeman, B H. 1992. "Consolidation and disposal of PWR fuel inserts". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/7077152. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/7077152.
@article{osti_7077152,
title = {Consolidation and disposal of PWR fuel inserts},
author = {Wakeman, B H},
abstractNote = {Design and licensing of the Surry Power Station Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation was initiated in 1982 by Virginia Power as part of a comprehensive strategy to increase spent fuel storage capacity at the Station. Designed to use large, metal dry storage casks, the Surry Installation will accommodate 84 such casks with a total storage capacity of 811 MTU of spent pressurized water reactor fuel assemblies. Virginia Power provided three storage casks for testing at the Idaho National Engineerinq Laboratory's Test Area North and the testing results have been published by the Electric Power Research Institute. Sixty-nine spent fuel assemblies were transported in truck casks from the Surry Power Station to Test Area North for testing in the three casks. Because of restrictions imposed by the cask testing equipment at Test Area North, the irradiated insert components stored in these fuel assemblies at Surry were removed prior to transport of the fuel assemblies. Retaining these insert components proved to be a problem because of a shortage of spent fuel assemblies in the spent fuel storage pool that did not already contain insert components. In 1987 Virginia Power contracted with Chem-Nuclear Systems, Inc. to process and dispose of 136 irradiated insert components consisting of 125 burnable poison rod assemblies, 10 thimble plugging devices and 1 part-length rod cluster control assembly. This work was completed in August and September 1987, culminating in the disposal at the Barnwell, SC low-level radioactive waste facility of two CNS 3-55 liners containing the consolidated insert components.},
doi = {10.2172/7077152},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7077152}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992},
month = {Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992}
}