Interim report: commercial waste packaging studies. Task 2, high-level waste package acceptance criteria study. [Cannister containment for interim storage]

Technical Report · Wed Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:6983542

Moore, E L

Technical support studies have been conducted to identify constraints that will be imposed by the waste management system on the design of canisters used to contain and store solidified commercial high-level waste (HLW). The design constraints arise because of the need for a high integrity canister to be compatible with handling equipment and environments at each stage in the HLW package life cycle. The life cycle covers a span of several years from the time the canister is filled with solidified waste until the package is disposed of in a Federal repository. The HLW package life cycle used as a basis for the technical support studies assumed that waste is produced from the reprocessing of uranium recycle pressurized water reactor fuel 160 days out of reactor. It is solidified to form either a borosilicate glass or a stabilized calcine, and placed in a canister for interim storage (either wet or dry) at the fuels reprocessing plant for a period of up to 10 years. The HLW package is then shipped and emplaced in a Federal repository which can be either in salt, basalt, or shale. A set of preliminary high-level waste package acceptance criteria have been developed and are presented. The high-level waste package acceptance criteria study plan is reviewed and the results of the technical support studies are discussed. Areas requiring additional study to firm up the acceptance criteria and to translate them to design criteria are identified.

• Research Organization: Atomics International Div., Richland, WA (USA). Rockwell Hanford Operations
• DOE Contract Number: EY-77-C-06-1030
• OSTI ID: 6983542
• Report Number(s): RHO-ST-10
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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