Commercial waste and spent fuel packaging program
Abstract
Nuclear waste storage investigations are discussed. Completion of the first fuel exchange in the Spent Fuel Test - Climax program is described. Plasma arc welder development is discussed. The modification and qualification of a canister cutter, the installation and activation of a remote area monitor, a constant air monitor, and an alpha/beta/gamma counting system is described. Also discussed was qualification of grapples required to handle pressurized water reactor or boiling water reactor fuel and high level waste (HLW) logs; data acquisition from the 3 kilowatt soil temperature test, 2 kw fuel temperature test, and 2 kw drywell test; calorimetry of the fuel assembly used in the fuel temperature test; evaluation of moisture accumulation in the drywells and recommendations for proposed changes; revision of safety assessment document to include HLW log operations; preparation of quality assurance plan and procedures; development and qualification of all equipment and procedures to receive, handle and encapsulate both the HLW log and spent fuel for the basalt waste isolation program/near surface test facility program; preliminary studies of both the requirements to perform waste packaging for the test and evaluation facility, and a cask storage program for the DOE Interim Spent Fuel Management program; and remote handling operations on radioactive source calibration in support of other contractors.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- October 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981chsf.rept.....H
- Keywords:
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- Cans;
- Radioactive Wastes;
- Spent Fuels;
- Underground Storage;
- Waste Disposal;
- Arc Welding;
- Maintenance;
- Metal Cutting;
- Remote Handling;
- Safety Management;
- Temperature Measurement;
- Ultrasonic Flaw Detection;
- Nuclear and High-Energy Physics