Irradiated Hardware Characterization and Packaging During Decommissioning of the Ford Nuclear Reactor at University of Michigan
- WMG, Inc., Peekskill, NY (United States)
Characterization of all irradiated hardware during decommissioning of experimental and research reactors always presents a host of challenges not normally associated with characterization of irradiated hardware from commercial nuclear reactors. The campaign to characterize all of the irradiated hardware from the Ford Nuclear Reactor at the University of Michigan was no exception. The Ford Nuclear Reactor was an MTR pool style reactor that was in continual use up to the point of decommissioning. Some of the unique challenges involved with experimental pool reactors are the lack of symmetry around the core for neutron activation analysis calculations, the large inventory of activated components, the high degree of variability within that inventory, and the packaging of the entire inventory into the most efficient liner combinations. The entire high activity inventory was successfully packaged into two (2) steel fuel pool liners and shipped in two (2) cask shipments. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, 1628 E. Southern Avenue, Suite 9 - 332, Tempe, AZ 85282 (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 21294762
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US--09-WM-07438
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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