Technical Data Summary -- Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility coprocessing case. Revision 1

Technical Report · Wed Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10182957· OSTI ID:10182957

Howell, J P; Rankin, D T; Scarbrough, J D

This revised Technical Data Summary (TDS) provides basic technical data, including product and equipment requirements and process description for conceptual design and cost estimate studies of a reference facility. The facility will fabricate fuel assemblies for light water reactors (LWR) from (U-Pu)O{sub 2} feed coproduced from spent LWR fuel. The Fuel Fabrication Facility (FFF) will be located within an integrated LWR uranium-plutonium reprocessing complex consisting of facilities for fuel storage, reprocessing, conversion, refabrication, and waste processing. The conceptual design and cost estimate of the FFF is part of a general design integration study (DIS) to define an optimized system to dispose of spent LWR fuel. The reference process for the DIS was changed from separate processing of plutonium to coprocessing. In coprocessing, plutonium from reprocessed spent fuel is not available in a separate stream. The main product of coprocessing is a mixture of UO{sub 2} and PuO{sub 2} that is suitable as feed for the FFF: a separate byproduct of uranium is also obtained. In the FFF, the (U-Pu)O{sub 2} coproduct is fabricated into pellets, encapsulated into rods, and assembled into bundles for refueling LWRs. The objective of the Technical Data Summary (TDS) is to provide the technical data required to design a versatile facility capable of manufacturing fuel bundles for refueling pressurized water reactors (PWRs) and boiling water reactors (BWRs). This facility must be cost effective and must satisfy material safeguards and environmental requirements.

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (United States). Savannah River Lab.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001; AC09-89SR18035
• OSTI ID: 10182957
• Report Number(s): DPSTD-AFCT--77-12-Rev.1; ON: DE94019001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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