1 / 20

Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI ) Dry Cask Storage NUCP 2311

Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI ) Dry Cask Storage NUCP 2311. 1982 Congress Passed Nuclear Waste Policy Act Spent Fuel Pools near Capacity 1 st Dry Storage System licensed in 1986 at Surry Power Station. History. 27 Dry Storage Sites (as of March 2003)

truman
Download Presentation

Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI ) Dry Cask Storage NUCP 2311

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI)Dry Cask StorageNUCP 2311

  2. 1982 Congress Passed Nuclear Waste Policy Act Spent Fuel Pools near Capacity 1st Dry Storage System licensed in 1986 at Surry Power Station History

  3. 27 Dry Storage Sites (as of March 2003) Licensed at Reactor Sites 1 Licensed for TMI-2 Fuel Debris History

  4. Licensing • 10CFR72 • Dry Storage Casks • Designs Approve by NRC • Currently 15 in use (as of December 2004) • Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) • Site-Specific • General

  5. Licensing – Dry Storage Casks

  6. Licenses (one or both) Storage Transport Specifications 17 feet height 180,000 lbs. (230,000 lbs. fully-loaded) Holds 30 – 60 fuel assemblies Licensing – Dry Storage Casks

  7. Licensing – Dry Storage Casks • Maximum Burnup 60 MWD/MTU (most around 45 MWD/MTU) • Minimum Decay time in SFP:5 – 10 years • 20 – 30 kW thermal (depends on size) • Maximum Enrichment 5%

  8. Typical Materials Structural Carbon Steel Stainless Steels Concrete Shielding Borated Resin Borated Aluminum Lead Licensing – Dry Storage Casks

  9. Licensing – Dry Storage Casks • Mother Nature • Wind / Tornados • Missiles (trees, telephone poles) • Snow and Ice • Earthquakes • Accidents • Cask Tip-over • Cask Drop • Fire • Loss of Cooling (vents blocked)

  10. Licensing – ISFSI Pad • Example Pad (At Indian Point Energy Center) • 3 feet thick • 100 x 200 feet • 21 miles of rebar • 2000 cubic yards of concrete

  11. Licensing – ISFSI Vaults • Pre-made concrete structures • Assembled on-site

  12. CASTOR – General Nuclear Systems, Inc. NUHOMS – Transnuclear, Inc. NAC – NAC International, Inc. Dry Storage Casks - Types

  13. Dry Storage Cask - SFP

  14. Dry Storage Casks - Loading • Loading Cask in SFP

  15. Dry Cask Storage - Loading • Remove water and fill with Inert gas • Bolt and Weld Lid

  16. Dry Cask Storage - Transportation • Load onto Cask Transporter

  17. Dry Cask Storage - Transportation • Place on Cask Pad or in Vault

  18. Above Ground Storage of SNF

  19. Dry Cask Storage - Transportation • Transport off-site • Train, Barge, and Truck

  20. ISFSI Summary • ISFSI is a good temporary disposal method • New casks designs can be safely transported to Yucca Mountain • New cask designs can handle high-burnup fuel

More Related