Title: Technical issues resolution associated with spent fuel transport cask development
Abstract: The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) is in the process of developing a new generation of casks to transport spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactor facilities to federal waste facilities. In evaluating the needs of the cask development program a number of unresolved technical issues with potential impacts on the transportation system were identified. This paper provides three samples of issues being addressed by the Cask Systems Development Program for technical resolution: (1) burn-up credit, (2) containment source term evaluation, and (3) weeping.
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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