Final Technical Report: Imaging a Dry Storage Cask with Cosmic Ray Muons
- Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
The goal of this project is to build a scaled prototype system for monitoring used nuclear fuel (UNF) dry storage casks (DSCs) through cosmic ray muon imaging. Such a system will have the capability of verifying the content inside a DSC without opening it. Because of the growth of the nuclear power industry in the U.S. and the policy decision to ban reprocessing of commercial UNF, the used fuel inventory at commercial reactor sites has been increasing. Currently, UNF needs to be moved to independent spent fuel storage installations (ISFSIs), as its inventory approaches the limit on capacity of on-site wet storage. Thereafter, the fuel will be placed in shipping containers to be transferred to a final disposal site. The ISFSIs were initially licensed as temporary facilities for ~20-yr periods. Given the cancellation of the Yucca mountain project and no clear path forward, extended dry-cask storage (~100 yr.) at ISFSIs is very likely. From the point of view of nuclear material protection, accountability and control technologies (MPACT) campaign, it is important to ensure that special nuclear material (SNM) in UNF is not stolen or diverted from civilian facilities for other use during the extended storage.
- Research Organization:
- Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States); Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- NE0008292
- OSTI ID:
- 1430598
- Report Number(s):
- DOE-ORST-NE0008292
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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