Experience With Damaged Spent Nuclear Fuel at U.S. DOE Facilities

Conference · Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006

OSTI ID:20995511

Carlsen, Brett; Fillmore, Denzel; Woolstenhulme, Eric ^[1]; McCormack, Roger L ^[2]; Sindelar, Robert; Spieker, Timothy ^[3]

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1. Idaho National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1625 Idaho Falls, ID 83415 (United States)
2. Fluor Hanford Site, Richland, Wash. (United States)
3. Savannah River National Laboratory, Savannah River Site Aiken, SC 29808 (United States)

This report summarizes some of the challenges encountered and solutions implemented to ensure safe storage and handling of damaged spent nuclear fuels (SNF). It includes a brief summary of some SNF storage environments and resulting SNF degradation, experience with handling and repackaging significantly degraded SNFs, and the associated lessons learned. This work provides useful insight and resolutions to many engineering challenges facing SNF handling and storage facilities. The context of this report is taken from a report produced at Idaho National Laboratory and further detailed information, such as equipment design and usage, can be found in the appendices to that report. (authors)

• Research Organization: The ASME Foundation, Inc., Three Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016-5990 (United States)
• OSTI ID: 20995511
• Resource Relation: Conference: 14. international conference on nuclear engineering (ICONE 14), Miami, FL (United States), 17-20 Jul 2006; Other Information: Country of input: France
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
DESIGN
ENGINEERING
ENVIRONMENT
EQUIPMENT
INFORMATION
SOLUTIONS
SPENT FUEL STORAGE
SPENT FUELS
STORAGE FACILITIES