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Title: Treatment Deployment Evaluation Tool

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for the final disposition of legacy spent nuclear fuel (SNF). As a response, DOE's National Spent Nuclear Fuel Program (NSNFP) has been given the responsibility for the disposition of DOE -owned SNF. Many treatment technologies have been identified to treat some forms of SNF so that the resulting treated product is acceptable by the disposition site. One of these promising treatment processes is the electrometallurgical treatment (EMT) currently in development; a second is an Acid Wash Decladding process. The NSNFP has been tasked with identifying possible strategies for the deployment of these treatment processes in the event that the treatment path is deemed necessary. To support the siting studies of these strategies, economic evaluations are being performed to identify the least-cost deployment path. This model (tool) was developed to consider the full scope of costs, technical feasibility, process material disposition, and schedule attributes over the life of each deployment alternative. Using standard personal computer (PC) software, the model was developed as a comprehensive technology economic assessment tool using a Life-Cycle Cost (LCC) analysis methodology. Model development was planned as a systematic, iterative process of identifying and bounding the required activities to disposemore » of SNF. To support the evaluation process, activities are decomposed into lower level, easier to estimate activities. Sensitivity studies can then be performed on these activities, defining cost issues and testing results against the originally stated problem.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
911366
Report Number(s):
INEEL/CON-99-00565
TRN: US0704539
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC07-99ID-13727
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 13th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSE 99),Las Vegas, NV,08/09/1999,08/12/1999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
12 - MGMT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES, 42 - ENGINEERING; DECLADDING; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION; LIFE-CYCLE COST; NUCLEAR FUELS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SCHEDULES; SENSITIVITY; TESTING; SPENT FUELS; acceptance criteria; Acid Waste Decladding process; disposition site; economic evaluation; electrometallurgical treatment (EMT); Life-Cycle Cost; spent nuclear fuel (SNF); treatment technologies

Citation Formats

Rynearson, Michael Ardel, and Plum, Martin Michael. Treatment Deployment Evaluation Tool. United States: N. p., 1999. Web.
Rynearson, Michael Ardel, & Plum, Martin Michael. Treatment Deployment Evaluation Tool. United States.
Rynearson, Michael Ardel, and Plum, Martin Michael. 1999. "Treatment Deployment Evaluation Tool". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/911366.
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abstractNote = {The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is responsible for the final disposition of legacy spent nuclear fuel (SNF). As a response, DOE's National Spent Nuclear Fuel Program (NSNFP) has been given the responsibility for the disposition of DOE -owned SNF. Many treatment technologies have been identified to treat some forms of SNF so that the resulting treated product is acceptable by the disposition site. One of these promising treatment processes is the electrometallurgical treatment (EMT) currently in development; a second is an Acid Wash Decladding process. The NSNFP has been tasked with identifying possible strategies for the deployment of these treatment processes in the event that the treatment path is deemed necessary. To support the siting studies of these strategies, economic evaluations are being performed to identify the least-cost deployment path. This model (tool) was developed to consider the full scope of costs, technical feasibility, process material disposition, and schedule attributes over the life of each deployment alternative. Using standard personal computer (PC) software, the model was developed as a comprehensive technology economic assessment tool using a Life-Cycle Cost (LCC) analysis methodology. Model development was planned as a systematic, iterative process of identifying and bounding the required activities to dispose of SNF. To support the evaluation process, activities are decomposed into lower level, easier to estimate activities. Sensitivity studies can then be performed on these activities, defining cost issues and testing results against the originally stated problem.},
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year = {Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1999},
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