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Spent Fuel Working Group report on inventory and storage of the department's spent nuclear fuel and other reactor irradiated nuclear materials and their environmental, safety, and health vulnerabilities.

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Corporate Author: United States. Department of Energy. Spent Fuel Working Group.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. Dept. of Energy, [1993]
Subjects:
Spent reactor fuels > Storage > United States.
Spent reactor fuels > Environmental aspects > United States.
Spent reactor fuels > United States > Safety measures.
Spent reactor fuels > Health aspects > United States.
Radioactive substances > Storage > United States.
Radioactive substances > Environmental aspects > United States.
Radioactive substances > United States > Safety measures.
Radioactive substances > Health aspects > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Overall Summary
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Spent Fuel Working Group
  • 1.3 Objective and Scope
  • 1.4 Method
  • 1.5 Results
  • A. RINM Characteristics and Interview
  • 1. Categories of Material Stored
  • 2. Types of Cladding
  • 3. Storage Locations
  • B. ES&H Vulnerabilities
  • 1. Wet Storage
  • 2. Dry Storage
  • 3. Buried Storage
  • 4. Summary of Vulnerabilities
  • C. Generic Issues
  • 1. Storage Authorization Bases
  • 2. Seismic Issues
  • 3. Programmatic Ownership
  • 4. Material Characterization
  • 5. Path Forward
  • D. Facilities With Most Significant Vulnerabilities
  • 1. 105-K East Basin
  • 2. L- And K-Reactor Disassembly Basins
  • 3. ICPP-603 FSF
  • 4. PUREX
  • 5. Burial Sites
  • E. Better Facilities: Only Minor Vulnerabilities
  • 1. ICPP-666 FSA
  • 2. RBOF
  • 3. HFIR
  • 4. ICPP Underground Storage Facility (ICPP-749)
  • 1.6 Findings and Conclusions
  • 2. Summaries of Working Group Assessment Team Reports
  • 2.1 Hanford Site
  • 2.2 Idaho National Engineering Laboratory Site
  • 2.3 Savannah River Site
  • 2.4 Oak Ridge Site
  • 2.5 West Valley Demonstration Project Site
  • 2.6 Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • 2.7 Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • 2.8 Sandia National Laboratories
  • 2.9 General Atomics
  • 2.10 Babcock & Wilcox, Lynchburg Technology Center
  • 2.11 Argonne National Laboratory-East
  • 2.12 Naval Reactors Facility
  • 2.13 Rocky Flats Critical Mass Laboratory
  • 2.14 EG&G Mound Applied Technologies, Ohio
  • 2.15 Lawrence Berkley Laboratory
  • 2.16 Battelle Columbus Laboratory
  • 2.17 University Reactors
  • 2.18 Others
  • 3. References
  • 4. Attachments
  • A. Acronyms
  • B. DOE Inventory of Reactor Irradiated Nuclear Materials
  • C. Wet Storage Characteristics
  • D. Dry Storage Characteristics.

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