Fuel consolidation demonstration program: Cold and hot demonstrations

Technical Report · Fri Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6775453

EPRI, Northeast Utilities, Baltimore Gas and Electric, the US Department of Energy and Combustion Engineering are engaged in a program to develop a system for consolidating spent fuel and a method of storing the consolidated fuel in the spent fuel storage pool which is licensable by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Fuel consolidation offers a means of substantially increasing the capacity of spent fuel storage pools. Part 1 of this report provides an overview of the project and summarizes the results of the cold and hot demonstrations. Part 2 describes the cold demonstration of the integrated fuel consolidation system performed under non-irradiated conditions at Combustion Engineering's Engineering Development Laboratory in Windsor, Connecticut. Part 3 describes the hot demonstration of the integrated fuel consolidation system performed at Millstone Unit 2 with spent fuel in September 1987. 9 refs., 23 figs., 9 tabs.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA); Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT (USA); Northeast Utilities Service Co., Berlin, CT (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/RW; EPRI
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 6775453
• Report Number(s): EPRI-NP-6893; PNL--7151
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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