Advances in Technology for Storing Light Water Reactor Spent Fuel
| Autor: | Mikal A. McKinnon, E.Robert Gilbert, A. Burtron Johnson, Wendell J. Bailey |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
| Předmět: |
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Waste management 020209 energy Nuclear engineering Radioactive waste ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS 02 engineering and technology Technology assessment Condensed Matter Physics Spent nuclear fuel law.invention 020303 mechanical engineering & transports Dry storage 0203 mechanical engineering Nuclear Energy and Engineering law Nuclear power plant 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Environmental science Light-water reactor Spent fuel pool Burnup |
| Zdroj: | Nuclear Technology. 89:141-161 |
| ISSN: | 1943-7471 0029-5450 |
| DOI: | 10.13182/nt90-a34342 |
| Popis: | By 2003, 58 U.S. commercial nuclear power plant units are expected to run out of wet storage space for light water reactor (LWR) spent fuel. This paper reports how, to alleviate this problem, utilities have implemented advanced storage methods that have increased storage capacity as well as reduced the rate of spent-fuel; generation. These methods include transshipping spent-fuel assemblies between pools within the same utility system, reracking pools to accommodate additional spent-fuel assemblies, taking credit for fuel burnup in pool storage rack designs, extending fuel burnup, rod consolidation, and dry storage. |
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