Removal and transportation of the reactor pressure vessel/neutron shield tank package
Conference
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· Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA)
OSTI ID:5488952
The Shippingport Station Decommissioning Project is a US Department of Energy sponsored project to dismantle the Shippingport Atomic Power Station (SAPS) and return the government-leased property in a radiologically safe condition to its owner, Duquesne Light Company. One key feature of the project includes the removal of the reactor pressure vessel/neutron shield tank (RPV/NST) package from its existing location at SAPS and its transportation by barge to the government-owned Hanford Reservation in Richland, Washington. The package, which consists of the RPV, its non-fuel-bearing internals, and the integral NST, will be prepared as a monolithic metal/concrete package for shipment. The package, which is {approx}5.1 m in diameter by 12 m in length with a gross weight of {approx}907 tonnes, will contain {approx}16,000 Ci of radioactivity and have a surface contact radiation exposure rate of {approx}2 mrem/h. The package is currently located {approx}19 m below grade in the reactor enclosure. A description of the three major operations necessary to deliver the RPV package to the Hanford burial site is presented. These are: (1) heavy lifting, land transportation, and barge loading, barge transportation, and Hanford transportation. This work will be the first use of barge transportation in the United States of a radioactive RPV package from a decommissioned land-based nuclear power plant.
- OSTI ID:
- 5488952
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-880601--
- Conference Information:
- Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA) Journal Volume: 56
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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