Document Details
Title:
FIRST PRIVATE REPROCESSING
Document Location:
Location - DOE/NNSA NUCLEAR TESTING ARCHIVE Address - P.O. Box 98521 City - Las Vegas State - NV Zip - 89193-8521 Phone - (702)794-5106 Fax - (702)862-4240 Email - NTA@NV.DOE.GOV
Document Type:
OTHER
Document Type Other:
AUDIOVISUAL MATERIAL
Publication Date:
1966 Dec 31
Declassification Status:
Never classified
Document Pages:
0002
Accession Number:
NV0098287
Document Number(s):
ERDA667664
Originating Research Org.:
W.R. GRACE AND COMPANY
OpenNet Entry Date:
1994 Aug 27
OpenNet Modified Date:
2003 Sep 18
Description/Abstract:
A 23-TON CASK CONTAINING A SINGLE FUEL ELEMENT FROM THE YANKEE ATOMIC ELECTRIC COMPANYS ROWE MASSACHUSETTS NUCLEAR REACTOR IS LOWERED INTO T HE UNLOADING POOL AT NUCLEAR FUEL SERVICES (NFS) REPROCESSING PLANT AT WEST VALLEY NEW YORK. IT WAS THE FIRST SUCH SHIPMENT TO BE RECEIVED AT PRIVATE INDUSTRYS FIRST NUCLEAR REPROCESSING PLANT. THE FUEL ELEME NT WAS REMOVED UNDERWATER AND TRANSFERRED TO AN ADJOINING STORAGE POOL WHERE IT WILL REMAIN UNTIL UNDERGOING REPROCESSING. THROUGH CHEMICAL PURIFICATION THE UNSPENT PORTION OF THE NUCLEAR FUEL WILL BE RECOVERE D AND MADE AVAILABLE FOR REUSE IN A REACTOR. COMMERCIAL OPERATION OF THE $28 MILLION NFS PROJECT BEGAN IN JANUARY 1966. NFS IS A MAJORITY -OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF W.R. GRACE & COMPANY.