Timely topics on spent fuel storage
The history of spent fuel management in this country has taken several turns, with a final resolution still out of reach. Several repository programs started, stalled ans stopped. The latest effort at Yucca Mountain is progressing but, at best, is years from the early phases of licensing, much less the actual underground disposal of spent fuel. A monitored retrieval storage [MRS] facility was expected to start accepting commercial spent fuel beginning in 1998, but no such facility is clearly on the horizon. All of these recent developments changed the circumstances that we face in spent fuel management. The obvious conclusion is that an increasing number of plants, both operating and permanently shut-down reactors, will have to provide for additional spent fuel storage on-site for a longer period than originally planned, and even after plant decommissioning, prudence requires that provision be made for continual, stand-alone, on-site storage. After pool capacity is reached, most utilities opt for some sort of dry storage. But the dry storage option has triggered an unprecedented amount of local opposition at many sites, further taxing NRC and industry resources.
- OSTI ID:
- 60918
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940748-; TRN: 95:000439-0003
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 35. annual meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM), Naples, FL (United States), 17-20 Jul 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]; Related Information: Is Part Of 35th Annual meeting proceedings. Volume XXIII; PB: 1360 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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