Setting the Stage for International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facilities: International Workshop Proceedings

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13 Welcoming Remarks, October 3, 2005 Milton Leenson National Academy of Engineering I would like to welcome you to this miniworkshop, a follow-on to the major workshops we held in Moscow and Vienna on the topic of an international storage site for spent nuclear fuel. This series of workshops has been conducted under the joint auspices of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Acad- emies with financial support from George Russell. In past workshops we explored issues of technology, liability, law, and safeguards. While the overall topic is an international storage site, we have used a site in Russia as the first example of a site to host an international spent fuel storage operation not directly linked to a reprocessing plant. The issues have been identified, and in most cases the path forward to resolve the issues has been identified. The issue not resolved is the ap- proval required from the United States by most potential user countries, an issue we will hear about here. We will also hear an update on activities in Russia. The Russian government has been taking this subject very seriously, as indicated by its announcement in Vienna that Russia would not put its fuel in the international storage facility. The result is to improve the robustness of International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring since without Russian fuel questions of sovereignty that often complicate inspection should be easily resolved. I think we all recog- nize the safety and security benefits of making sure that spent nuclear fuel, now literally scattered all over the world, be consolidated in secure and monitored storage. The challenge is how to do it and how to make it happen. 9

Table of Contents

Front Matter R1-R10

1 Welcoming Remarks--David N. McNelis 1-2

2 International Monitoring of Storage and Disposal Facilities: The Potential Role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)--Bruno Pellaud* 3-10

3 Status of Liability and Insurance Laws for International Shipments of Spent Nuclear Fuel--Norbert Pelzer 11-20

4 Insurance and Liability in the Transport and Reception of Fuel for Storage in Russia--Nikolay S. Pronkin 21-27

5 Overview of National Laws in Relation to a Regional Repository: Legal and Other Nontechnical Aspects of Multinational Repositories--Christina Boutellier 28-40

6 Current Russian Legislation Regulating Procedures and Conditions for the Import of Foreign Spent Nuclear Fuel--Valery S. Bezzubtsev 41-55

7 The Importance of Storage and Disposal in Multinational Approaches to the Fuel Cycle--Charles McCombie and Neil Chapman 56-69

8 Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Japan--Kinichiro Kusunose 70-71

9 Methods for VVER-1000 Fuel Testing Under Dry Storage Conditions--Valentin B. Ivanov 72-74

10 U.S. Nuclear Power Industry Trends in Spent Fuel Management--John H. Kessler 75-82

11 Comments of Particular Interest During the Workshop Discussions--Glenn E. Schweitzer 83-85

12 Summary Remarks--David N. McNelis 86-91

13 Welcoming Remarks, October 3, 2005--Milton Levenson 92-92

14 On the Problem of Creating Regional International Storage Facilities for Spent Nuclear Fuel (Based on the Russian Example)--Nikolay P. Laverov 93-98

15 International Storage of Commercial Spent Fuel and High-Level Waste: Considerations for U.S. Approval to Ship Spent Fuel with U.S.-Origin Uranium to Russia for Storage and Disposal--Alex R. Burkart and Janet M. Gorn 99-108

Appendix A: Agenda: Workshop on Setting the Stage forInternational Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facilities 109-111

Appendix B: Agenda: Setting the Stage for International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facilities: An Update 112-112

Appendix C: Experience of Russian Companies in Transportation of Nuclear Materials--Valentin B. Ivanov 113-118