Fuel consolidation demonstration program: Methods development, testing, and design analyses: Interim report

Technical Report · Mon Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:6847602

EPRI, Northeast Utilities, the US Department of Energy, Baltimore Gas and Electric, and Combustion Engineering are engaged in a program to develop a spent fuel consolidation system licensed by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Fuel consolidation offers a means of substantially increasing the capacity of spent fuel storage pools. Consolidation equipment design, development, fabrication, and testing are being performed by combustion Engineering in windsor, Connecticut. Seismic and structural evaluation of the capability of the Millstone Unit 2 spent fuel pool and building to accommodate the increased fuel capacity is being conducted by Northeast Utilities. Northeast Utilities plans to obtain a license amendment to permit storage of consolidated spent fuel at Millstone Unit 2. Additionally, NU intends to perform a hot demonstration of the integrated consolidated system equipment with spent fuel at Millstone Unit 2. The spent fuel storage system designs were analyzed to show that they meet the Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing criteria for subcriticality. Results from the criticality experiments on spent fuel rod arrays were used in the development of an analytical computer model for consolidated spent fuel characteristics. 41 refs., 62 figs., 20 tabs.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA); Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA); Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 6847602
• Report Number(s): PNL-6524; EPRI-NP-5945; ON: DE88015835
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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