Air Shipment of Highly Enriched Uranium Spent Nuclear Fuel from Romania

Conference · Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010

OSTI ID:986970

Allen, K J; Bolshinsky, I; Biro, L L; Budu, M E; Zamfir, N V; Dragusin, M

Romania safely air shipped 23.7 kilograms of Russian origin highly enriched uranium (HEU) spent nuclear fuel from the VVR S research reactor at Magurele, Romania, to the Russian Federation in June 2009. This was the world’s first air shipment of spent nuclear fuel transported in a Type B(U) cask under existing international laws without special exceptions for the air transport licenses. This shipment was coordinated by the Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return Program (RRRFR), part of the U.S. Department of Energy Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI), in cooperation with the Romania National Commission for Nuclear Activities Control (CNCAN), the Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), and the Russian Federation State Corporation Rosatom. The shipment was transported by truck to and from the respective commercial airports in Romania and the Russian Federation and stored at a secure nuclear facility in Russia where it will be converted into low enriched uranium. With this shipment, Romania became the 3rd country under the RRRFR program and the 14th country under the GTRI program to remove all HEU. This paper describes the work, equipment, and approvals that were required to complete this spent fuel air shipment.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE - NA
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC07-05ID14517
• OSTI ID: 986970
• Report Number(s): INL/CON-09-16974; TRN: US1006569
• Resource Relation: Conference: European Nuclear Conference 2010,Barcelona, Spain,05/30/2010,06/03/2010
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MGMT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
AIR TRANSPORT
AIRPORTS
CASKS
ENRICHED URANIUM
HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM
INTERNATIONAL LAWS
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
NUCLEAR FUELS
ORIGIN
PHYSICS
RESEARCH REACTORS
ROMANIA
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
SPENT FUELS
Air shipment SNF
Air transport SNF
CNCAN
Global Threat Reduction Initiative
GTRI
HEU
Highly enriched uranium
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nu
IFIN-HH
National Commission for Nuclear Activities Control
RRRFR
Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return
Spent nuclear fuel