FACSIM/MRS-2: Storage and shipping performance assessment.
This report provides a performance assessment of the designs for the storage and shipping operations of the MRS facility. These activities, referred to as back-end operations, including handling canistered spent fuel and secondary waste in the shielded canyon cell, in onsite yard storage, and in repository shipping cask loading areas. This analysis verified that the MRS facility back-end operations as designed are capable of handling 3600 metric tons of uranium (MTU) per year if the facility operates seven days per week (24-hour days). The cask cart utilization rate is highest, in use about 50% of the operating year. Cask cart utilization refers to the utilization of the shielded canyon cell repository shipping cask loadout port (also referred to as the exit port) and the cask cart that serves that port. The receiving and handling facility design specifies two loadout ports, one for each side of the facility. This analysis also determined that a throughput rate of 3000 MTU per year could be achieved with five-day week facility operation.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 6528753
- Report Number(s):
- PNL-5981; ON: DE87011233
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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CASKS
CONTAINERS
MANAGEMENT
MONITORED RETRIEVABLE STORAGE
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
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SPENT FUEL STORAGE
STORAGE
STORAGE FACILITIES
WASTE MANAGEMENT
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