West Valley facility spent fuel handling, storage, and shipping experience

West Valley facility spent fuel handling, storage, and shipping experience [electronic resource]

The result of a study on handling and shipping experience with spent fuel are described in this report. The study was performed by Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) and was jointly sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The purpose of the st...

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Corporate Authors: Pacific Northwest Laboratory (Researcher), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S.) (Researcher)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Las Vegas, Nev : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1990.
Subjects:
Federal Region Ii.
Corrosion.
Radioactive Waste Management.
Water Moderated Reactors.
Nuclear Fuels.
Spent Fuel Casks.
Containers.
Transition Element Compounds.
Oxygen Compounds.
Fuels.
Fuel Elements.
Fuel Rods.
Fuel Assemblies.
Energy Sources.
Storage.
Management.
Inspection.
Casks.
Materials.
Reactor Materials.
Water Cooled Reactors.
Bwr Type Reactors.
Reactors.
Iron Compounds.
Fuel Storage Pools.
New York.
Spent Fuels.
Materials Handling.
Spent Fuel Storage.
Waste Management.
Usa.
Transport.
North America.
Fuel Cans.
Chemical Reactions.
Reactor Components.
Oxides.
Pwr Type Reactors.
Evaluation.
Iron Oxides.
Chalcogenides.
Nuclear Fuel Cycle And Fuel Materials.
Description
Summary:The result of a study on handling and shipping experience with spent fuel are described in this report. The study was performed by Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL) and was jointly sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The purpose of the study was to document the experience with handling and shipping of relatively old light-water reactor (LWR) fuel that has been in pool storage at the West Valley facility, which is at the Western New York Nuclear Service Center at West Valley, New York and operated by DOE. A subject of particular interest in the study was the behavior of corrosion product deposits (i.e., crud) deposits on spent LWR fuel after long-term pool storage; some evidence of crud loosening has been observed with fuel that was stored for extended periods at the West Valley facility and at other sites. Conclusions associated with the experience to date with old spent fuel that has been stored at the West Valley facility are presented. The conclusions are drawn from these subject areas: a general overview of the West Valley experience, handling of spent fuel, storing of spent fuel, rod consolidation, shipping of spent fuel, crud loosening, and visual inspection. A list of recommendations is provided. 61 refs., 4 figs., 5 tabs.
Item Description:Published through the Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information.
11/01/1990.
"pnl-7436"
"DE91004966"
Bailey, W.J.
Physical Description:Pages: (63 p) : digital, PDF file.

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