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New Nuclear Power and Climate Change: Issues and Opportunities

New Nuclear Power and Climate Change: Issues and Opportunities. Jay Maisler Consultant and Certified Health Physicist Enercon. Nuclear Power Plant Radioactive Waste. Jay J. Maisler, CHP Enercon Services, Inc. Radioactive Waste Overview. Low Level Radioactive Waste

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New Nuclear Power and Climate Change: Issues and Opportunities

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  1. New Nuclear Power and Climate Change: Issues and Opportunities Jay Maisler Consultant and Certified Health Physicist Enercon

  2. Nuclear Power PlantRadioactive Waste Jay J. Maisler, CHP Enercon Services, Inc.

  3. Radioactive Waste Overview • Low Level Radioactive Waste The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines low-level waste as including items that have become contaminated with radioactive material or have become radioactive through exposure to neutron radiation. Low-level waste is typically stored on-site by licensees, either until it has decayed away and can be disposed of as ordinary trash, or until amounts are large enough for shipment to a low-level waste disposal site in containers approved by the Department of Transportation.

  4. Radioactive Waste Overview • High Level Radioactive Waste The U.S. NRC describes high-level radioactive wastes as the highly radioactive materials produced as a byproduct of the reactions that occur inside nuclear reactors. High-level wastes take one of two forms: • Spent (used) reactor fuel when it is accepted for disposal • Waste materials remaining after spent fuel is reprocessed Spent nuclear fuel is used fuel from a reactor that is no longer efficient in creating electricity, because its fission process has slowed. However, it is still thermally hot, highly radioactive, and potentially harmful. Until a permanent disposal repository for spent nuclear fuel is built, licensees must safely store this fuel at their reactors.

  5. Low Level Radioactive Waste • Classes of Waste • Class A • Class B • Class C • Three existing low level radioactive waste disposal facilities • Barnwell, SC • Hanford, WA • Clive, UT

  6. Low Level Radioactive Waste • Waste is disposed in Low Level Disposal Facilities.

  7. Low Level Radioactive Waste • Low Level Radioactive Waste is encapsulated either by solidification or placement in High Integrity Containers.

  8. High Level Radioactive Waste

  9. Fuel Rods Filled With Pellets Are Grouped Into Fuel Assemblies

  10. Fuel Assemblies Cool Temporarily in Used Fuel Pools

  11. Dry Fuel Storage at Plant Sites

  12. Temporary Dry Fuel Storageat Power Plant Site

  13. Dry Fuel Storage Projects • ENERCON Services has provided engineering services for 18 Dry Fuel Storage Projects throughout the US.

  14. Dry Fuel Storage Projects • Dry Fuel Storage Projects include design and engineering for: • Storage Pad • Facility Security • Electrical • Federal Licensing • Local and State Permitting • Cask Heavy Load Lifting

  15. Transportation Containers Are Strong and Safe

  16. Transportation Casks Have Been Tested

  17. Container Loaded on a Truck…

  18. … And Crashed at 80 MPH into a Concrete Wall

  19. Container Broadsided by Locomotive Traveling at 80 MPH

  20. Containers Survived Incineration Tests

  21. Containers Passed Every Test

  22. NRC Concludes Shipping Even Safer Than Previously Thought

  23. At the Repository, Fuel Will Be Transferred to a Special Disposal Container

  24. Yucca Mountain Being Considered As Disposal Site

  25. Yucca Mountain Being Considered As Disposal Site

  26. Seven Miles of Tunnels Built in Yucca Mountain

  27. Yucca Mountain Has Been Thoroughly Investigated

  28. President Recommends Yucca Mountain

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