Spent Fuel Handling and Packaging Program Demonstration at the Nevada Test Site
The Spent Fuel Handling and Packaging Program Demonstration was initiated in 1977 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 surface (Sealed Storage Cask) and near surface (drywell) concepts for the interim dry storage of the encapsulated spent fuel assemblies. The E-MAD facility at the Nevada Test Site was chosen as the location for this demonstration. This document describes the Sealed Storage Cask and drywell storage configuration, the processes and equipment utilized to encapsulate the spent fuel assemblies and place them into the storage configurations, and the thermal tests performed to establish the suitability of the storage configurations. Also presented is a criticality safety evaluation for the spent fuel handling operations and the storage configurations.
- Research Organization:
- Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (United States). Advanced Energy Systems Div.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC08-76NV00597
- OSTI ID:
- 59718
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NV/00597-7; ON: DE81024160; TRN: 81:011113
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Feb 1980
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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