Research Reactor Aluminum Spent Fuel Treatment Options for Disposal (1998) / Chapter Skim
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1. Background and Task
1. Background and Task
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At the end of 1995, DOE EM had under management approximately 2,650 MTHM~ of spent nuclear filet, primarily at the Hanford, Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) , and Savannah River sites (DOE, 1996a; Figure ~ ~2 Beginrung in 1995, DOE completed a number of programmatic environmental impact statements (PETSs)
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6 Savannah River also is responsible for the management of aluminum spent nuclear fuel from production reactors, which were used for nuclear weapons materials production. This spent fuel is being treated by conventional reprocessing (i.e., wet chemical processing)
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. By 2035, We site expects to receive an additional 10 MTHM from government and university reactors around Me United States and 12 it The L-Reactor is one of several production reactors at Savannah River used to produce nuclear weapons materials.
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SOURCE: Savannah River Laboratory.
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Implementations ofthe ROD is expect to begin around 2000. TASK STATEMENT AND STUDY PROCESS As part of its efforts to prepare He aluminum spent filet PENS, He Savannah River Office of DOE asked He National Research Council (NRC)
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SOURCE: Data from Savannah River Laboratory. The statement of task for this study involves a review of the following aspects of DOE's program for developing a preferred strategy to treat for disposal this aluminum spent fuel: examination of the set of technologies chosen by DOE and identification of other alternatives that DOE might consider; · examination of the waste-package performance criteria developed by DOE to meet anticipated waste acceptance criteria for disposal of aluminum spent fuel and identification of other factors that DOE might consider; and
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(B) Locations of foreign research reactors that have or will generate aluminum spent filer for shipment to and treatment at Savannah River.
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l j j ~ _ co us cod co co co 0 0 0 0 FIGURE I.4 Projected receipts and transfers of aluminum spent fixed at Savannah River. NOTE: FRR = foreign research reactor filet; DRR = domestic research reactor filet; HFIR= High-Flux Isotope Reactor filet (HEIR is located at the Oak Ridge site; see Figure A.; from INEEL = aluminum spent file]
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and study director received scoping briefings Dom DOE and contractor staff on He aluminum spent filet program at Savannah River and the work completed to date on the alternative eahnent technologies. The second meeting comprised a more detailed set of briefings on the alternative treatment technologies and was attended by He P.~., |4 For Me purposes of this study it was assumed that the treated aluminum spent fuel waste form would be subject to standard repository procedures and that the fuel waste form would be packaged in the outer container being developed for other repository waste.
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HA 1 1 1 rat . no\\ FIGURE l.5 Examples of some of the spent research reactor filet to be treated at Savannah River: (A)
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The consultants were asked to provide written answers to sets of questions developed by the P.~. and the study director prior to the meeting.
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Each chapter begins with background material and data needed to understand the issue and concludes with discussions of each charge of the task statement.
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