History and Status of DOE’s Standardized Canister – 19657
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for managing spent nuclear fuel (SNF) that is currently in, or will in the future come into, its possession. The DOE standardized canister will be relied upon to confine radionuclides and preclude moderator in order to ensure safe, long-term management and disposition of DOE SNF. This strategy offers an avenue for avoiding the characterization costs (i.e. funds and exposure) and other technical challenges associated with the traditional approach of relying on fuel-specific properties as the basis for demonstrating compliance with the regulator. The use of the standardized canister offers the following benefits: • The standardized canister design is complete. It has been tested under a variety of drop and accident scenarios and was subsequently licensed under 10 CFR 72 as a storage system as part of the FWENC Facility. It is also part of the license submittal for Yucca Mountain. • There is high confidence that the standardized canister design can be stored within commercially available storage casks and licensed as part of a transportation-system package. • The robustness of the standardized canister simplifies accident analyses and does not rely on characterization of the contained waste. This simplifies safety analysis, provides a greater level of confidence with stake holders and reduces cost and risk. • Significant savings result from a common design for the associated packaging, closure, and loadout facilities. • Design efforts, procurement, and fabrication are simplified • Safety and surety of operations are enhanced by standardizing handling activities and associated training, procedures, equipment, and tooling. The standardized canister is the preferred package for these materials and has withstood scrutiny by the Yucca Mountain Repository License Application, the NRC’s Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, an American Society of Mechanical Engineers peer review, and the Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation storage license application. This evaluation summarizes and documents the status of the design and rationale for the DOE standardized canister and outlines the remaining needs to allow deployment. In addition, it discusses the factors that have the potential to influence storage, transportation, and disposal of DOE SNF.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 1515022
- Report Number(s):
- INL/CON-18-51893-Rev000
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM2019, Phoenix, 03/03/2019 - 03/07/2019
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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