Overview of the prototypical rod consolidation program

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1988 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA)

OSTI ID:6769611

Clark, J H; Maughan, R Y

In 1985, the U.S. Department of Energy initiated development of spent nuclear fuel rod consolidation equipment for future application at a high-level waste repository facility and/or at a monitored retrievable storage (MRS) facility. The prototypical consolidation demonstration project (PCDP) is a multiphased project to expedite development and demonstration of equipment to remotely consolidate spent commercial reactor fuel in a dry environment at production rates of 750 tonnes of heavy metal throughput per year. This equipment must be capable of consolidating all light water reactor (LWR) fuel that exceeds 1% of the U.S. inventory of LWR fuel in the year 2000. This equipment is intended to be prototypical of equipment to be used at a geological repository or the MRS facility.

• OSTI ID: 6769611
• Report Number(s): CONF-880601--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (USA) Journal Volume: 56
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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