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Monitored retrievable storage facility

Conference · · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)
OSTI ID:7239849

A monitored retrievable storage facility (MRS) is being developed as an integral part of the high-level radioactive waste management system. Using proven technologies, the MRS will accept shipments of spent fuel from utilities and temporarily store the spent fuel under closely monitored conditions. The goal is to begin spent fuel acceptance at an MRS in 1998. When a geologic repository opens, currently scheduled for 2010, the spent fuel stored at the MRS will be shipped to the repository for permanent disposal, and additional spent fuel from reactors will be whipped through the MRWs to the repository. By allowing an orderly transfer of spent fuel to the federal system, independent of the ability to emplace spent fuel in the repository, the MRS will increase the flexibility and reliability of the total system. And by providing both buffer storage and a central staging area for waste shipments to the repository, the MRS may increase the efficiency of waste transportation through the use of large shipments by dedicated train, thus reducing the number of shipments. As an integral part of the waste management system, the MRS is an important step in moving spent fuel from reactors to permanent disposal and will reduce the need for additional at-reactor storage.

OSTI ID:
7239849
Report Number(s):
CONF-911107--
Journal Information:
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States), Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States) Vol. 64; ISSN TANSA; ISSN 0003-018X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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052002* -- Nuclear Fuels-- Waste Disposal & Storage
053001 -- Nuclear Fuels-- Environmental Aspects-- Siting-- (1992-)
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
AMERICAN INDIANS
CERTIFICATION
CONSTRUCTION
DESIGN
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
ENERGY SOURCES
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
FUELS
HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
HUMAN POPULATIONS
LICENSING
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
MINORITY GROUPS
MONITORED RETRIEVABLE STORAGE
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUCLEAR FACILITIES
NUCLEAR FUELS
OPERATION
POPULATIONS
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
PUBLIC OPINION
PUBLIC UTILITIES
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FACILITIES
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
REACTOR MATERIALS
REGULATIONS
SITE SELECTION
SPENT FUEL STORAGE
SPENT FUELS
STORAGE
US DOE
US DOE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
US ORGANIZATIONS
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE STORAGE
WASTES