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Current Status and Potential Benefits of Burnup Credit for Spent Fuel Transportation
Current Status and Potential Benefits of Burnup Credit for Spent Fuel Transportation
PWR Burnup Credit Using Both Belts and Suspenders
PWR Burnup Credit Using Both Belts and Suspenders
Status of the Joint French ISPN/COGEMA Qualification Programme of Fission Products
Status of the Joint French ISPN/COGEMA Qualification Programme of Fission Products
Design of Wet Storage Racks for Spent BWR Fuel
Design of Wet Storage Racks for Spent BWR Fuel
SAS2D--A Two-Dimensional Depletion Sequence for Characterization of Spent Nuclear Fuel
SAS2D--A Two-Dimensional Depletion Sequence for Characterization of Spent Nuclear Fuel
Development and Applications of a Protypic SCALE Control Module for Automated Burnup Credit Analysis
Development and Applications of a Protypic SCALE Control Module for Automated Burnup Credit Analysis
Use Burnup Credit for Criticality Safety for the Hanford Spent Nuclear Fuel Project
Use Burnup Credit for Criticality Safety for the Hanford Spent Nuclear Fuel Project
Impact of Partially Inserted Control Rods on Actinide-Only Burnup Credit Margin
Impact of Partially Inserted Control Rods on Actinide-Only Burnup Credit Margin
A New Method to Take Burnup into Account in Criticality Studies Considering an Axial Profile of Burn-up Plus some Fission Products
A New Method to Take Burnup into Account in Criticality Studies Considering an Axial Profile of Burn-up Plus some Fission Products
WCS Files License Application with Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to Operate a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) for Used Nuclear Fuel
WCS Files License Application with Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to Operate a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) for Used Nuclear Fuel
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 28, 2016) – Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) submitted an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a license to construct and operate a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF) for used nuclear fuel. The filing comes after a year of pre-application meetings with NRC and maintains the timeline WCS outlined in February 2015.
The application is being led by WCS, along with its partners AREVA and NAC International, both global industry leaders in the transportation and storage of used nuclear fuel.
Execution Strategy Analysis Conference Papers
Execution Strategy Analysis Conference Papers
Conference papers on the IWM Execution Strategy Analysis process and tool.
Initial Site-Specific De-Inventory Reports
Initial Site-Specific De-Inventory Reports
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is exploring options for developing a large-scale transportation system for the safe transport of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste to future storage or disposal facilities. This complex, large-scale transportation system will involve coordinated, integrated activities. Interfaces with various transportation and non-transportation activities must be defined, and systems must be developed to ensure successful integration when the system becomes operational.
Consent-Based Siting Roadmap
Consent-Based Siting Roadmap
The U.S. Department of Energy is pursuing one or more federal consolidated interim storage facilities to store the nation's commercial spent nuclear fuel in the near-term using a multistage consent-based approach that puts communities' interest at the forefront.
Consent-Based Siting Q&A With Dr. Kathryn Huff
Consent-Based Siting Q&A With Dr. Kathryn Huff
Dr. Kathryn Huff, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy, explains consent-based siting process and the recently distributed request for information.
Consent-Based Siting: U.S. DOE Climate Action & Spent Nuclear Fuel Management
Consent-Based Siting: U.S. DOE Climate Action & Spent Nuclear Fuel Management
Nuclear energy is essential to tackling climate change. Maintaining the nation’s current fleet and deploying advanced reactors is crucial in achieving the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s ambitious goals of a 50% reduction in carbon emissions by the end of the decade, 100% clean electricity by 2035, and a net-zero economy by 2050.
However, to meet those goals, progress needs to be made in the management of spent nuclear fuel. Inaction on this issue has already cost taxpayers more than $9 billion in settlements and judgments.
Consent-Based Siting: Social Science & Nuclear Waste Management at the U.S. Department of Energy
Consent-Based Siting: Social Science & Nuclear Waste Management at the U.S. Department of Energy
Can anthropologists help the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) design a more environmentally just, participatory, and consent-based siting process for spent nuclear fuel management facilities? The DOE has committed to a consent-based approach to siting spent nuclear fuel management facilities that aims to enable broad community participation and center equity and environmental justice.
Spending Time on Spent Nuclear Fuel
Spending Time on Spent Nuclear Fuel
Making progress on the long-term management of spent nuclear fuel can be fraught with political and economic challenges, but groups within the U.S. are looking to try and tackle the challenge from many different angles. As the government ramps up efforts to support spent nuclear fuel management up to the limits of the law, ANS and others are making recommendations around, and receiving funding oriented to, pathways for progress.
Consent-Based Siting Consortia Awardee Branding Assets
Consent-Based Siting Consortia Awardee Branding Assets
The attached files provide logo image files and guidance about how to properly use the Awardee brand and logo that should be included with any presentations and material developed by awardees.
Let the Talk Count: Attributes of Stakeholder Engagement, Trust, Perceive Environmental Protection and CSR
Let the Talk Count: Attributes of Stakeholder Engagement, Trust, Perceive Environmental Protection and CSR
This article tests the links between attributes of stakeholder engagement (information sharing [quantity and quality of information sharing], procedural fairness [respectful treatment and providing voice], and empathy) and local communities’ acceptance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives with the mediating roles of trust and perceived environmental protection. Using Ghana as a case, survey data were collected from 604 local inhabitants in mining communities for the study.
Spent Nuclear Fuel and Reprocessing Waste Inventory, Revision 9
Spent Nuclear Fuel and Reprocessing Waste Inventory, Revision 9
This report provides information on the inventory of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) in the United States located at Nuclear Power Reactor and Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation sites, as well as SNF and reprocessing waste located at U.S. Department of Energy sites and other research and development centers as of the end of calendar year 2021.
Summary of Consolidated Interim Storage Advantages and Disadvantages from an Integrated Systems Perspective from Prior Reports and Studies
Summary of Consolidated Interim Storage Advantages and Disadvantages from an Integrated Systems Perspective from Prior Reports and Studies
The question of whether centralized storage of civilian spent nuclear fuel (SNF) should be part of the federal waste management system as an intermediate step before permanent disposal has been debated for more than four decades. Centralized storage facilities were included as a potential component of the U.S. spent fuel management system in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (NWPA), but the NWPA did not identify these facilities as being essential.
One of the Safest Trains Ever Built? Atlas Railcar Completes Final Testing
One of the Safest Trains Ever Built? Atlas Railcar Completes Final Testing
Video of the recently completed 1,600-mile round-trip journey from Colorado to Idaho to wrap up final testing on the Atlas railcar.
Hosting a Nuclear Facility: Mayors Discuss Role of Community Engagement
Hosting a Nuclear Facility: Mayors Discuss Role of Community Engagement
Engaging local stakeholders through transparent and open dialogue is pivotal for the success of nuclear projects. Engagement requires time, trust-building and adaptability as expectations evolve. In many places, communities that initially expressed scepticism or opposition have become advocates because of this engagement and better understanding of what it means to host a nuclear facility.
A Journey Through a Hypothetical Consolidated Interim Storage Facility
A Journey Through a Hypothetical Consolidated Interim Storage Facility
The hypothetical facility shown in this animation has not been sited or licensed. It is one concept intended only to demonstrate what a potential federal consolidated interim storage facility for commercial spent nuclear fuel could look like based on a set of operating assumptions.