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Title: Used fuel extended storage security and safeguards by design roadmap

Abstract

In the United States, spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is safely and securely stored in spent fuel pools and dry storage casks. The available capacity in spent fuel pools across the nuclear fleet has nearly reached a steady state value. The excess SNF continues to be loaded in dry storage casks. Fuel is expected to remain in dry storage for periods beyond the initial dry cask certification period of 20 years. Recent licensing renewals have approved an additional 40 years. This report identifies the current requirements and evaluation techniques associated with the safeguards and security of SNF dry cask storage. A set of knowledge gaps is identified in the current approaches. Finally, this roadmap identifies known knowledge gaps and provides a research path to deliver the tools and models needed to close the gaps and allow the optimization of the security and safeguards approaches for an interim spent fuel facility over the lifetime of the storage site.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [5]
  1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
  2. Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States). Savannah River National Lab. (SRNL)
  3. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  5. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Fuel Cycle Technologies (NE-5)
OSTI Identifier:
1341726
Report Number(s):
SAND2016-4677
650147
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION

Citation Formats

Durbin, Samuel G., Lindgren, Eric Richard, Jones, Robert, Ketusky, Edward, England, Jeffrey, Scherer, Carolynn, Sprinkle, James, Miller, Michael., Rauch, Eric, Scaglione, John, and Dunn, T. Used fuel extended storage security and safeguards by design roadmap. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.2172/1341726.
Durbin, Samuel G., Lindgren, Eric Richard, Jones, Robert, Ketusky, Edward, England, Jeffrey, Scherer, Carolynn, Sprinkle, James, Miller, Michael., Rauch, Eric, Scaglione, John, & Dunn, T. Used fuel extended storage security and safeguards by design roadmap. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1341726
Durbin, Samuel G., Lindgren, Eric Richard, Jones, Robert, Ketusky, Edward, England, Jeffrey, Scherer, Carolynn, Sprinkle, James, Miller, Michael., Rauch, Eric, Scaglione, John, and Dunn, T. 2016. "Used fuel extended storage security and safeguards by design roadmap". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1341726. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1341726.
@article{osti_1341726,
title = {Used fuel extended storage security and safeguards by design roadmap},
author = {Durbin, Samuel G. and Lindgren, Eric Richard and Jones, Robert and Ketusky, Edward and England, Jeffrey and Scherer, Carolynn and Sprinkle, James and Miller, Michael. and Rauch, Eric and Scaglione, John and Dunn, T.},
abstractNote = {In the United States, spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is safely and securely stored in spent fuel pools and dry storage casks. The available capacity in spent fuel pools across the nuclear fleet has nearly reached a steady state value. The excess SNF continues to be loaded in dry storage casks. Fuel is expected to remain in dry storage for periods beyond the initial dry cask certification period of 20 years. Recent licensing renewals have approved an additional 40 years. This report identifies the current requirements and evaluation techniques associated with the safeguards and security of SNF dry cask storage. A set of knowledge gaps is identified in the current approaches. Finally, this roadmap identifies known knowledge gaps and provides a research path to deliver the tools and models needed to close the gaps and allow the optimization of the security and safeguards approaches for an interim spent fuel facility over the lifetime of the storage site.},
doi = {10.2172/1341726},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1341726}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}