Preliminary Evaluation of Removing Spent Nuclear Fuel From Shutdown Sites - Fort Calhoun Site Visit - 18048

Conference · Sun Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2018

OSTI ID:22975270

Maheras, Steven ^[1]; Best, Ralph ^[2]; Bickford, Erica ^[3]; Massaro, L. Mel ^[4]; Feldman, Matt ^[5]; England, Jeff ^[6]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (United States)
2. Independent Consultant (United States)
3. US DOE (United States)
4. Federal Railroad Administration - US DOT (United States)
5. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (United States)
6. Savannah River National Laboratory (United States)

This is a technical paper that does not take into account contractual limitations under the Standard Contract for Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and/or High-Level Radioactive Waste (10 CFR Part 961). Under the provisions of the Standard Contract, DOE does not consider spent nuclear fuel in multi-assembly canisters to be an acceptable waste form, absent a mutually agreed to contract amendment. To the extent discussions or recommendations in this paper conflict with the provisions of the Standard Contract, the Standard Contract provisions prevail. An updated evaluation of removing spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from 14 shutdown nuclear power plant sites was conducted during 2017. The major update since 2016 was the addition of the recently shutdown Fort Calhoun site to the evaluation. The Fort Calhoun site is located on the western shore of the Missouri River in Washington County in eastern Nebraska, about 31 km north of Omaha, Nebraska. Fort Calhoun has been shut down since October 24, 2016 and final removal of SNF from the reactor vessel was completed on November 13, 2016. The site visit to Fort Calhoun occurred in May 2017 and involved meetings with the Fort Calhoun staff and the Union Pacific Railroad. Participants in the site visit included the Federal Railroad Administration, Pahrump Paiute Tribe, Prairie Island Indian Community, Nebraska State Patrol, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Iowa Department of Transportation Office of Rail Transportation, Iowa Department of Transportation Office of Motor Vehicle Enforcement, and the Council of State Governments-Midwest. The Fort Calhoun site was found to have two transportation mode options for the removal of SNF, rail and barge. In the case of rail, an onsite rail spur could be reinstalled from the existing Cargill industrial spur that runs through the Fort Calhoun site, or an onsite trans-load onto the Cargill industrial spur could be performed. In 2006, a barge was used to ship steam generators, a pressurizer, and a reactor vessel head to the Fort Calhoun site; consequently, barge transport of SNF offsite is potentially an option. (authors)

• Research Organization: WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
• OSTI ID: 22975270
• Report Number(s): INIS-US--20-WM-18048
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
BARGES
CALHOUN-1 REACTOR
CONTRACTS
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
IOWA
MISSOURI RIVER
NEBRASKA
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
REACTOR VESSELS
RECOMMENDATIONS
SAFETY STANDARDS
SPENT FUELS
STEAM GENERATORS
US DOT
WASTE FORMS
WASTE TRANSPORTATION