Experience with failed or damaged spent fuel and its impacts on handling [electronic resource]
Spent fuel management planning needs to include consideration of failed or damaged spent light-water reactor (LWR) fuel. Described in this paper, which was prepared under the Commercial Spent Fuel Management (CSFM) Program that is sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE), are the following: th...
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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,
1989.
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| Summary: | Spent fuel management planning needs to include consideration of failed or damaged spent light-water reactor (LWR) fuel. Described in this paper, which was prepared under the Commercial Spent Fuel Management (CSFM) Program that is sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE), are the following: the importance of fuel integrity and the behavior of failed fuel, the quantity and burnup of failed or damaged fuel in storage, types of defects, difficulties in evaluating data on failed or damaged fuel, experience with wet storage, experience with dry storage, handling of failed or damaged fuel, transporting of fuel, experience with higher burnup fuel, and conclusions. 15 refs. |
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| Item Description: | Published through the Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information. 12/01/1989. "pnl-sa-17727" " conf-900161--5" "DE90008614" 7. Institute of Nuclear Materials Management spent fuel management seminar, Washington, DC (USA), 17-19 Jan 1990. Bailey, W.J. |
| Physical Description: | Pages: (8 p) : digital, PDF file. |