Safeguards techniques in a pilot conditioning plant for spent fuel

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1991 · Nuclear Materials Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings; (United States)

OSTI ID:5516544

Leitner, E; Rudolf, K; Weh, R ^[1]

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1. GNS, Hannover (DE)

The pilot conditioning plant at Gorleben, Germany, is designed as a multi-purpose plant. Its primary task is the conditioning of spent fuel assemblies into a form suitable for final disposal. As a pilot plant, it allows furthermore for the development and testing of various conditioning techniques. In terms of international safeguards, the pilot conditioning plant is basically considered an item facility. Entire fuel assemblies enter the plant in transport casks, whereas bins filled with fuel rods or canisters containing cut fuel rods leave the facility in final disposal packages (e.g. POLLUX). Each POLLUX final disposal package content is uniquely correlated to a definite number of fuel assemblies which have entered the conditioning process. For this type of facility, containment/surveillance (C/S) should take over the major role in nuclear material safeguards. This paper discusses the safeguards at the Gorleben plant.

• OSTI ID: 5516544
• Report Number(s): CONF-910774--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Nuclear Materials Management. Annual Meeting Proceedings; (United States) Journal Volume: 20
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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055000* -- Nuclear Fuels-- Safeguards
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11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
220900 -- Nuclear Reactor Technology-- Reactor Safety
98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION
AGREEMENTS
CONTAINMENT
ENERGY SOURCES
FUEL ASSEMBLIES
FUELS
GERMANY
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
MATERIALS
NUCLEAR FUELS
NUCLEAR SAFETY PILOT PLANT
REACTOR MATERIALS
REACTOR SAFETY EXPERIMENTS
SAFEGUARDS
SPENT FUELS
SURVEILLANCE