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 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA)

OSTI ID:5566891

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

The Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) of the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) have agreed to pursue the timely resolution of nuclear material packaging issues that affect the transport of waste in the united states under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), under the direction of the DOE Idaho Operations Office, is supporting OCRWM in identifying and resolving these technical issues. Given the large number and diversity of casks expected to be used for nuclear waste transportation operations beginning in the late 1990s, 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 NRC have been initiated on a limited number of issue topics 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.

• OSTI ID: 5566891
• 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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