Sellafield FGMSP Additional Sludge Retrievals A Significant Step in Decommissioning Part of the U.K.'s Nuclear Legacy - 16180
- Westinghouse Electric Company, Galemire Court, Westlakes Science and Technology Park, Moor Row, Cumbria, CA24 3JZ (United Kingdom)
- Westinghouse Electric Company, Dudenstrasse 6 68167 Mannheim (Germany)
- Sellafield, Seascale Cumbria, CA20 1PG (United Kingdom)
- EnergySolutions, Kelton House, Westlakes Science and Technology Park, Moor Row, Cumbria, CA24 3HX (United Kingdom)
The First Generation Magnox Storage Pond (FGMSP) is an open-air pond on the Sellafield site (U.K.) constructed to receive and store spent nuclear fuel from the UK's fleet of Magnox reactors. Operations ceased in 1986, leaving a significant mobile (sludge from the corrosion of fuel cladding) and solids (fuel, fuel fragments and other debris) inventory. In December 2013, Westinghouse Electric Company and EnergySolutions proposed to create an Additional Sludge Retrieval (ASR) capability, with the aim of starting sustainable sludge transfer and hazard reduction as soon as possible. The ASR project team proposed a sludge retrievals concept based on the use of a self-propelled, remote controlled Floating Platform. The deployment system was derived from a Floating Platform concept developed by Westinghouse to support field operations in European nuclear power plants. The system was designed, manufactured and successfully tested in real scale conditions, and was installed and fully commissioned in March 2015. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22838059
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-19-WM-16180; TRN: US19V1252083414
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM2016: 42. Annual Waste Management Symposium, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 6-10 Mar 2016; Other Information: Country of input: France; available online at: http://archive.wmsym.org/2016/index.html
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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