Hanford spent nuclear fuel project update

Conference · Tue Aug 19 04:00:00 EDT 1997

OSTI ID:341313

Williams, N H

Twenty one hundred metric tons of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) are currently stored in the Hanford Site K Basins near the Columbia River. The deteriorating conditions of the fuel and the basins provide engineering and management challenges to assure safe current and future storage. DE and S Hanford, Inc., part of the Fluor Daniel Hanford, Inc. lead team on the Project Hanford Management Contract, is constructing facilities and systems to move the fuel from current pool storage to a dry interim storage facility away from the Columbia River, and to treat and dispose of K Basins sludge, debris and water. The process starts in K Basins where fuel elements will be removed from existing canisters, washed, and separated from sludge and scrap fuel pieces. Fuel elements will be placed in baskets and loaded into Multi-Canister Overpacks (MCOs) and into transportation casks. The MCO and cask will be transported to the Cold Vacuum Drying Facility, where free water within the MCO will be removed under vacuum at slightly elevated temperatures. The MCOs will be sealed and transported via the transport cask to the Canister Storage Building.

• Research Organization: Fluor Daniel Hanford, Inc., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-96RL13200
• OSTI ID: 341313
• Report Number(s): HNF-SA--3205-FP; CONF-971128--; ON: DE99050207; BR: EW7040000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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05 NUCLEAR FUELS
DECOMMISSIONING
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FUEL STORAGE POOLS
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MATERIALS HANDLING
MONITORED RETRIEVABLE STORAGE
REMEDIAL ACTION
SPENT FUEL CASKS
SPENT FUEL STORAGE