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Fissile Material Storage Vaults: Designing to Enhance Safety and Efficiency

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OSTI ID:6304601
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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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There are several, sometimes conflicting, interests which must be accommodated in fissile material, storage vaults. These include criticality safety, radiation safety, fire protection, accountability, and safeguards in addition to the operational requirements of efficiency and, for automated vaults, reliability. A combination of these factors coupled with increasing demands on available vault space and the desire to minimize on-site transportation of special nuclear materials has resulted in current design and construction activities for three major fissile material storage vaults and the renovation of an existing vault at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Two of these new vaults will be provided with automated stacker-retriever systems similar to those common in large warehouse operations while the third vault, being smaller and having less potential for radiation exposures will be operated in a hands-on mode.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
6304601
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-87-2532; CONF-871045-9; ON: DE87013168
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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CRITICALITY
Chemistry Metallurgy Research (CMR) Facility
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FISSIONABLE MATERIALS
Fissile Density
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Nuclear Materials Storage Facility (NMSF)
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Radiation Exposures
SAFETY
STORAGE
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