Facility equipment performance evaluation using microcomputer simulation analysis
The Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) recently developed a facility performance assessment model as part of the US Department of Energy-sponsored monitored retrievable storage (MRS) program at PNL. The objective in the development of this model was to assist in the evaluation of the operational performance of the MRS facility design alternatives. The microcomputer-based simulation model provided a technique for the analysis of the design and performance of alternative MRS facility systems. The model was applied to the analysis of the material flow, equipment capability, and facility layout of various designs for a facility to receive and canister spent fuel from commercial nuclear power plants. Programs were also developed that evaluated alternative facility operating schedules and facility-equipment designs. The paper is a review of the facility performance assessment model and its advantages and benefits in the analysis of alternative facility designs employing varying degrees of remote handling capability.
- Research Organization:
- Battelle-Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA
- OSTI ID:
- 5752626
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-851115-
- Journal Information:
- Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States), Journal Name: Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States) Vol. 50; ISSN TANSA
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Facility/equipment performance evaluation using microcomputer simulation analysis
Performance assessment of the proposed Monitored Retrievable Storage Facility
Related Subjects
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
BATTELLE PACIFIC NORTHWEST LABORATORIES
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
DESIGN
EQUIPMENT
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
MONITORED RETRIEVABLE STORAGE
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
PERFORMANCE
RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE
REMOTE HANDLING EQUIPMENT
SIMULATION
SPENT FUEL STORAGE
STORAGE
US DOE
US ERDA
US ORGANIZATIONS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE STORAGE