Verification and Analysis of Spent Fuel Safety Information Database in Korea - 18252
- Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (Korea, Republic of)
- Kyung Hee University, Department of Nuclear Engineering (Korea, Republic of)
The Public Engagement Commission on SNF management (PECOS) published the recommendation report on the spent fuel management of Korea in June, 2015. Based on this report, the national basic policy for high level radioactive waste management of Korea was established and promulgated, taking into consideration the national/international trends on policy and technology development. According to the national plan, the siting for deep geological disposal facility of high level radioactive waste will be proceeded by 2028. Once the site is selected at somewhere, centralized spent fuel storage facility will be constructed by 2035 at the same site while research program is ongoing to determine the compatibility of the site for disposal facility. According to the enforcement decree of the nuclear safety act, the definition of 'interim storage' is that a safe storage of spent fuel which is received from NPP operator for a specified period, until it is processed or permanently disposed of. It means that spent fuels should be taken over with integrated information of spent fuel from NPP operator to the KORAD (Korea Radioactive waste agency). The aim of this study is to confirm and analyze present and future spent fuel data in order to provide the basic information to the safety research on the transport and storage of spent fuel in Korea. AMORES (Automatic Multi-batch ORIGEN Runner for Evaluation of Spent fuel) was used for the aim of this study. All 16,160 bundles of PWR spent fuel database as of the end of 2015 and the expected spent fuel which will be generated from 2016 to 2053 are evaluated and verified based on national basic plan. Through scenario analysis, it was estimated that approximately 15,000 MTU of spent fuel will be transported to intermediate storage facilities by 2052. Therefore, 44%, 6%, and 33% of spent fuel will be left in Kori, Hanbit and Hanul sites, respectively. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22975410
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US--20-WM-18252
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
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PWR TYPE REACTORS
RADIATION PROTECTION
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RECOMMENDATIONS
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SAFETY STANDARDS
SPENT FUEL STORAGE
SPENT FUELS
UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL
VERIFICATION