Spent fuel handling and storage facility for an LWR fuel reprocessing plant

Technical Report · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:5497449

Baker, W H; King, F D

The facility will have the capability to handle spent fuel assemblies containing 10 MTHM/day, with 30% if the fuel received in legal weight truck (LWT) casks and the remaining fuel received in rail casks. The storage capacity will be about 30% of the annual throughput of the reprocessing plant. This size will provide space for a working inventory of about 50 days plant throughput and empty storage space to receive any fuel that might be in transit of the reprocessing plant should have an outage. Spent LWR fuel assemblies outside the confines of the shipping cask will be handled and stored underwater. To permit drainage, each water pool will be designed so that it can be isolated from the remaining pools. Pool water quality will be controlled by a filter-deionizer system. Radioactivity in the water will be maintained at less than or equal to 2 x 10/sup -4/ Ci/m/sup 3/; conductivity will be maintained at 1 to 2 ..mu..mho/cm. The temperature of the pool water will be maintained at less than or equal to 40/sup 0/C to retard algae growth and reduce evaporation. Decay heat will be transferred to the environment via a heat exchanger-cooling tower system.

• Research Organization: Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-09-0001
• OSTI ID: 5497449
• Report Number(s): DPSTD-AFCT-77-7
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CASKS
CONTAINERS
DESIGN
FUEL CYCLE
FUEL POOLS
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