Development of a New Transportation/Storage Cask System for Use by the DOE Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return Program

Conference · Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2007

OSTI ID:918705

Tyacke, Michael J; Svitak, Frantisek; Rychecky, Jiri; Picek, Miroslav; Smirnov, Alexey; Komarov, Sergey; Bradley, Edward; Dudchenko, Alexander; Golubkin, Konstantin

The United States, the Russian Federation, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have been working together on a program called the Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return (RRRFR) Program. The purpose of this program is to return Soviet or Russian-supplied high-enriched uranium (HEU) fuel, currently stored at Russian-designed research reactors throughout the world, to Russia. To accommodate transport of the HEU spent nuclear fuel (SNF), a new large-capacity transport/storage cask system was specially designed for handling and operations under the unique conditions at these research reactor facilities. This new cask system is named the ŠKODA VPVR/M cask. The design, licensing, testing, and delivery of this new cask system result from a significant international cooperative effort by several countries and involved numerous private and governmental organizations. This paper contains the following sections: 1) Introduction; 2) VPVR/M Cask Description; 3) Ancillary Equipment, 4) Cask Licensing; 5) Cask Demonstration and Operations; 6) IAEA Procurement, Quality Assurance Inspections, Fabrication, and Delivery; and, 7) Conclusions.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE - NE
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC07-99ID-13727
• OSTI ID: 918705
• Report Number(s): INL/CON-07-12276; TRN: US0805885
• Resource Relation: Conference: Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on the Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive M,Miami Florida,10/21/2007,10/26/2007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

12 - MGMT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
CASKS
DESIGN
FABRICATION
IAEA
LICENSING
NUCLEAR FUELS
PACKAGING
PROCUREMENT
QUALITY ASSURANCE
RESEARCH REACTORS
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
TESTING
TRANSPORT
URANIUM
high-enriched uranium spent nuclear fuel
international atomic energy agency
russian research reactor fuel return program
skoda
vpvr/m cask