Monitored Retrievable Storage conceptual system study: tunnel drywells

Technical Report · Mon Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5065169· OSTI ID:5065169

Unterzuber, R; Cross, T E; Krasicki, B R; Lundberg, W L

A description of the tunnel drywell storage facility concept is presented with the operations required to handle the spent fuel or high-level wastes and transuranic wastes. A generic Receiving and Handling Facility, provided by PNL, has been used for this study. Modifications to the storage delivery side of the handling facility, necessary to couple the Receiving and Handling Facility with the storage facility, are described. The equipment and support facilities needed for the storage facility are also described. Two separate storage facilities are presented herein: one for all spent fuel storage, and one for storage of high-level waste (HLW) and transuranic waste (TRU). Each facility is described for the capacities and rates defined by PNL in the Concept Technical Performance Criteria and Base Assumptions. Estimates of costs and time-distributions of expenditures have been developed to construct, operate, and decommission the conceptual MRS facilities in mid 1983 dollars, for the base cases given using the cost categories and percentages provided by PNL. Cost estimates and time-distributions of expenditures have also been developed to expand the facility throughput rate from 1800 MTU to 3000 MTU, and to expand the facility storage capacity from 15,000 MTU to 72,000 MTU. The life cycle cost of the facility for the bounding cases of all spent fuel and all HLW and TRU, using the time-distributions of costs developed above and assuming a two percent per year discount rate, are also presented. 2 references, 14 figures, 16 tables.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (USA). Waste Technology Services Div.
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 5065169
• Report Number(s): WTSD-TME-012; ON: DE84010686
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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