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Nuclear material safeguards during storage and disposal of spent nuclear fuel

Conference ·
OSTI ID:7079273

The systems and facilities of the US federal waste management system (FWMS) -- managed by the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management -- will be subject to the requirements of nuclear materials safeguards. The FWMS will handle both spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW). For SNF, the FWMS will include acceptance at the power reactor, transportation to the FWMS facilities, conditioning for storage and disposal, monitored retrievable storage (MRS), and disposal in a mined geologic repository. The safeguards requirements that must be considered and planned for early in the design of the FWMS systems and facilities are those specified in, under development for inclusion in, the DOE orders and US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations and those being developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Early identification of technical and institutional issues can prevent possible delays in the licensing of the FWMS facilities and ensure more economical implementation of the required safeguards elements in the FWMS. 2 refs.

Research Organization:
Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (USA)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/NE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84OT21400
OSTI ID:
7079273
Report Number(s):
K/ITP-238; CONF-890126--1; ON: DE90007111
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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