State, federal, nuclear interface: projected AFR needs to year 2000. Executive conference
This paper discusses the requirements for additional storage based on various assumptions concerning the plans of nuclear utilities for fuel storage. The data used for the storage projections are being used by the Department of Energy in planning fuel storage, waste disposal operations, and facility requirements; they are also used in evaluating the environmental impacts of waste operations, in calculating the need for waste transport systems, and to set fees to be charged for spent fuel storage and disposal. The most probable demand for AFR storage of spent fuel from domestic reactors in the near term (before 1990) is projected to be approximately 1800 MT. This value is expected to increase rapidly to a total of over 16,000 MT by the year 2000. It is improbable that AFR storage requirements will exceed 22,000 MT by the year 2000 or (assuming reprocessing does not occur) that they will be less than 14,000 MT. Most of the AFR demand will occur after 1985, but a few reactors will operate without sufficient storage space to effect a full core discharge before then. Currently five reactors are without such space, but plans are for them to regain it. These AFR storage projections are significantly lower than prior projections. The decrease in near term storage demands is mainly due to the utilities planning or implementing intrasite fuel movements (onsite transfers) or intra-utility shipments (transshipments) and pool capacity expansions. The longer term decreases in spent fuel storage needs result from delays in the startup of committed reactors and the planned use of longer reactor fuel cycles (increased fuel exposure). The decreased demand for AFR storage is compatible with the previously announced delays in providing government AFR facilities and decreases the projected number of reactors that might be forced to operate without capacity for a full core discharge.
- Research Organization:
- Du Pont de Nemours (E.I.) and Co., Aiken, SC (United States). Savannah River Lab.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC09-76SR00001
- OSTI ID:
- 6948077
- Report Number(s):
- DPSP-AFR-80-6-3; CONF-810208-1; TRN: 81-002892
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Executive conference - state, federal nuclear interface, Monterey, CA, USA, 2 Feb 1981
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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