Monthly away-from-reactor spent fuel storage report: AFR program

Technical Report · Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6993506· OSTI ID:6993506

This monthly away-from-reactor (AFR) report on spent fuel storage covers the following areas: planning and management; facility acquisition; legislative requirements; technical support; transportation, and international activity. The planning and management section provides a general statement of monthly activities which are itemized under that applicable program area. Specific program objectives, associated project activity and cost and milestone charts are provided. Some of the highlights of this report are: under facility acquisition, a reinforced concrete buttress outside of the basin wall has been selected as the best method for supporting the south wall in the event of add-on pool construction at the Morris operation; under legislative requirements, a formal draft of the fee report for Congress, Department of Energy Fee and Cost Studies of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage and Disposal has been issued and is being reviewed internally; under technical support, the Technical Data Summary for AFR safeguards and non-proliferation concerns has been issued, and John Hopkins University is continuing work on streamlining computer programs and developing and testing methods to address timing and capacity considerations in the AFR site selection; under transportation, Sandia Laboratories conducted high-velocity impact tests on spent fuel to determine released product dispersion, and has developed a computer model to evaluate the thermal transient inside a spent fuel cask during and after an accident; and under international activity, a US proposal for a work plan and allocation of tasks for the Pacific Basin feasibility study has been transmitted to the Japanese team to prepare for the initial joint working level meeting in October.

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Aiken, SC (USA). Savannah River Operations Office
• OSTI ID: 6993506
• Report Number(s): DOE/SR-SF-2005-9
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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