Potential safety-related incidents with possible applicability to a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant

Technical Report · Thu May 20 00:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:7172057

Durant, W S; Perkins, W C; Lee, R; Stoddard, D H

The Safety Technology Group is developing methodology that can be used to assess the risk of operating a plant to reprocess spent nuclear fuel. As an early step in the methodology, a preliminary hazards analysis identifies safety-related incidents. In the absence of appropriate safety features, these incidents could lead to significant consequences and risk to onsite personnel or to the public. This report is a compilation of potential safety-related incidents that have been identified in studies at SRL and in safety analyses of various commercially designed reprocessing plants. It is an expanded revision of the version originally published as DP-1558, Published December 1980.

• Research Organization: Savannah River Lab., Aiken, SC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-76SR00001; AC09-89SR18035
• OSTI ID: 7172057
• Report Number(s): DPST-82-581; ON: DE93000473
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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PUBLIC HEALTH
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SOLIDIFICATION
SPENT FUELS
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