Reference Fuel Development for NonAluminum Spent Nuclear Fuel Management

Conference · Wed Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2025

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/2589407· OSTI ID:2589407

Sifuentes, Christian A. ^[1]; Scheulen, Shelby Milo ^[1]

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1. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS), Aiken, SC (United States)

Background – The L Area Facility was initially constructed as a nuclear reactor for nuclear material production in the 1950s – The reactor was shut down in the late 1980s: in the 1990s the mission changed to storing nuclear material • Current Mission – L Area provides for the safe receipt, storage, handling, and shipping of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and other nuclear materials – Received more than 47,000 SNF assemblies since 1964 from power and research reactors (domestic and foreign)

• Research Organization: SRS
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; EM
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-08SR22470
• OSTI ID: 2589407
• Report Number(s): SRNS-STI-2025-00617
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English