scholarly journals Nuclear waste imaging and spent fuel verification by muon tomography

2013 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 267-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Jonkmans ◽  
V.N.P. Anghel ◽  
C. Jewett ◽  
M. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
Muon Tomography

Management of Nuclear Waste and Spent Fuel

1982 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. DRAPER ◽  
GEORGE COULBOURN
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Spent Fuel

NUCLEAR WASTE MANAGEMENT IN SPAIN: ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT SITUATION AND ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES

10.6036/10156 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-358
Author(s):  
Pablo Fernández Arias ◽  
DIEGO VERGARA RODRIGUEZ
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
Nuclear Waste Storage ◽  
Alternative Strategies ◽  
Temporary Storage ◽  
Long Term Storage ◽  
High Level

Centralized Temporary Storage Facility (CTS) is an industrial facility designed to store spent fuel (SF) and high level radioactive waste (HLW) generated at Spanish nuclear power plants (NPP) in a single location. At the end of 2011, the Spanish Government approved the installation of the CTS in the municipality of Villar de Cañas in Cuenca. This approval was the outcome of a long process of technical studies and political decisions that were always surrounded by great social rejection. After years of confrontations between the different political levels, with hardly any progress in its construction, this infrastructure of national importance seems to have been definitively postponed. The present research analyzes the management strategy of SF and HLW in Spain, as well as the alternative strategies proposed, taking into account the current schedule foreseen for the closure of the Spanish NPPs. In view of the results obtained, it is difficult to affirm that the CTS will be available in 2028, with the possibility that its implementation may be delayed to 2032, or even that it may never happen, making it necessary to adopt an alternative strategy for the management of GC and ARAR in Spain. Among the different alternatives, the permanence of the current Individualized Temporary Stores (ITS) as a long-term storage strategy stands out, and even the possibility of building several distributed temporary storage facilities (DTS) in which to store the SF and HLW from several Spanish NPP. Keywords: nuclear waste, storage, nuclear power plants.

Management of Nuclear Waste and Spent Fuel

1982 ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
E. Linn Draper ◽  
George I. Coulbourn
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Spent Fuel

scholarly journals A Prototype Scintillating-Fibre Tracker for the Cosmic-ray Muon Tomography of Legacy Nuclear Waste Containers

2014 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 10005 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kaiser ◽  
A. Clarkson ◽  
D. J. Hamilton ◽  
M. Hoek ◽  
D. G. Ireland ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
Muon Tomography

Developing a Concept for a National Used Fuel Interim Storage Facility in the United States

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Wayne Lewis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Spent Nuclear Fuel ◽  
The United States ◽  
Yucca Mountain ◽  
Storage Facility ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
Geological Repository ◽  
Interim Storage

In the United States (U.S.) the nuclear waste issue has plagued the nuclear industry for decades. Originally, spent fuel was to be reprocessed but with the threat of nuclear proliferation, spent fuel reprocessing has been eliminated, at least for now. In 1983, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 [1] was established, authorizing development of one or more spent fuel and high-level nuclear waste geological repositories and a consolidated national storage facility, called a “Monitored Retrievable Storage” facility, that could store the spent nuclear fuel until it could be placed into the geological repository. Plans were under way to build a geological repository, Yucca Mountain, but with the decision by President Obama to terminate the development of Yucca Mountain, a consolidated national storage facility that can store spent fuel for an interim period until a new repository is established has become very important. Since reactor sites have not been able to wait for the government to come up with a storage or disposal location, spent fuel remains in wet or dry storage at each nuclear plant. The purpose of this paper is to present a concept developed to address the DOE’s goals stated above. This concept was developed over the past few months by collaboration between the DOE and industry experts that have experience in designing spent nuclear fuel facilities. The paper examines the current spent fuel storage conditions at shutdown reactor sites, operating reactor sites, and the type of storage systems (transportable versus non-transportable, welded or bolted). The concept lays out the basis for a pilot storage facility to house spent fuel from shutdown reactor sites and then how the pilot facility can be enlarged to a larger full scale consolidated interim storage facility.

A Comparison of the Performance of Nuclear Waste Glasses by Modeling

1987 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Grambow ◽  
D. M. Strachan
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Nuclear Reactors ◽  
Liquid Waste ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
High Level Liquid Waste ◽  
Geologic Repository ◽  
Waste Forms ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Soluble Solid ◽  
High Level

The reprocessing of spent fuel from nuclear reactors and processing of fuels for defense purposes have generated large volumes of high-level liquid waste that need to be immobilized prior to final storage. For immobilization, the wastes must be converted to a less soluble solid, and, although other waste forms exist, glass currently appears to be the choice for the transuranic-containing portion of the reprocessed waste. Once produced, this glass will be sent in canisters to a geologic repository located some 200 to 500 m below the surface of the earth.

Evaluation of the Localised Corrosion of Carbon Steel Overpacks for Nuclear Waste Disposal in Granite Environments

1985 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. P. Marsh ◽  
K. J. Taylor ◽  
I. D. Bland ◽  
C. Westcott ◽  
P. W. Tasker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Steel ◽  
Mathematical Modelling ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Steel Corrosion ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
Corrosion Attack ◽  
Metal Thickness

AbstractThe application of carbon steel corrosion allowance containers for the long term encapsulation of HLW or spent fuel requires data on the likely rates of corrosion attack so that the metal thickness needed to prevent penetration can be estimated. This paper describes a joint mathematical modelling and experimental approach to the evaluation of the rate of localised corrosion.

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