Preparation of the shippingport reactor pressure vessel shipping package

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA)

OSTI ID:5488958

Yannitell, D M

The Shippingport Station Decommissioning Project is a US Department of Energy (DOE) project to dismantle the Shippingport Atomic Power Station. One of the more challenging technical aspects of the project, which is being managed for DOE by General Electric Nuclear Energy, is the removal and shipment of the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) and its associated neutron shield taken (NST) to the government-owned Hanford Reservation in Richland, Washington. The paper presents a description of the RPV and discusses disposal alternatives, regulations, package preparation, and final RPV package description. This is the first application of one-piece removal and barge transport of an irradiated nuclear RPV. Its potential application to future decommissionings may provide significant cost, schedule, and person-rem savings over the more conventional segmentation methods.

• OSTI ID: 5488958
• 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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