Development of the Standardized DOE Spent Nuclear Fuel Canister Design and Preliminary Design Specification
- Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company
The Department of Energy (DOE) has developed a set of standard canisters for the handling, interim storage, transportation, and disposal in the national repository of DOE spent nuclear fuel (SNF). The Department's National Spent Nuclear Fuel Program (NSNFP) and the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) worked together along with DOE sites to develop the canister design. The standardized DOE SNF in a variety of potential storage and transportation systems and also be acceptable to the repository, based on current and anticipated future requirements. Since specific design details regarding storage, transportation, and repository dispoal of DOE SNF are not yet finalized, the NSNFP recognized that it was necessary to specify a complete DOE SNF canister design. This design had to be flexible enough to be incorporated into various storage and transportation systems and yet standardized so that the canister would be acceptable to the repository for disposal. This paper discusses the efforts taken to gain DOE complex consensus, the reasons for various design decisions, the steps taken to demonstrate the robustness of the proposed canister design, and other insights associated with the development of the standardized DOE SNF canister design and the preliminary design specification.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-94ID13223
- OSTI ID:
- 7642
- Report Number(s):
- INEEL/CON-99-00138; ON: DE00007642
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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