Technical issues relevant to the transport of commercially generated high-level nuclear waste in the United States

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5268391

Sanders, T L; Allen, Jr, G C; Ottinger, C A; Sandoval, R P; Dwight, C C

Given the large number and diversity of casks expected to be used for nuclear waste transportation operations beginning in the late 90's, the DOE intends to address some high priority cask technical issues in a timely and assertive manner before the submission of safety analysis reports for individual packages. Open exchanges between DOE and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) have been initiated on a limited number of issue topics which are currently being investigated in depth to develop sufficient technical justification to pursue resolution of the issues. These issues are: (1) burnup credit, (2) source term containment evaluation, (3) transportable storage casks, and (4) cask weeping. 7 refs.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA); USDOE Idaho Operations Office, Idaho Falls
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5268391
• Report Number(s): SAND-88-0055C; CONF-880601-9; TTC-0773; CONF-880601-; ON: DE88004938
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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