Spent LWR fuel encapsulation and dry storage demonstration
In 1977 the Spent Fuel Handling and Packaging Program (SFHPP) was initiated by the Department of Energy to develop and test the capability to satisfactorily encapsulate typical spent fuel assemblies from commercial light-water nuclear power plants and to establish the suitability of one or more surface and near surface concepts for the interim dry storage of the encapsulated spent fuel assemblies. The E-MAD Facility at the Nevada Test Site, which is operated for the Department of Energy by the Advanced Energy Systems Division (AESD) of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, was chosen as the location for this demonstration because of its extensive existing capabilities for handling highly radioactive components and because of the desirable site characteristics for the proposed storage concepts. This paper describes the remote operations related to the process steps of handling, encapsulating and subsequent dry storage of spent fuel in support of the Demonstration Program.
- Research Organization:
- Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Advanced Energy Systems Div.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC08-76NV00597
- OSTI ID:
- 59711
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-800607-79; TRN: 80:013349
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Nuclear Society annual meeting, Las Vegas, NV (United States), 8-13 Jun 1980; Other Information: PBD: 1980
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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