Impact of Integral Burnable Absorbers on PWR Burnup Credit Criticality Safety Analyses

Parametric Study of Control Rod Exposure for PWR Burnup Credit Criticality Safety Analyses

Spent Fuel Criticality Benchmark Experiments

The Burn-Up Credit Experimental Programme REBUS

Addressing the Axial Burnup Distribution in PWR Burnup Credit Criticality Safety

Reactivity End-Effects Estimates Using a K Perturbation Model

Criticality Safety Evaluation of Fuel Storage Pools in Spain

A Validated Methodology for Evaluating Burnup Credit in Spent Fuel Casks

Characterization of Spent Fuel Approved Testing Material - ATM-104

Uncertainties in Criticality Analysis Which Affect the Storage and Transportation of LWR Fuel

Characterization of Spent Fuel Approved Testing Material - ATM 103

Characterization of Spent Fuel Approved Testing Material

Reactivity and Isotopic Composition of Spent PWR Fuel as a Function of Initial Enrichment, Burnup, and Cooling Time

Feasibility and Incentives for the Consideration of Spent Fuel Operating Histories in the Criticality Analysis of Spent Fuel Shipping Casks

Analyses have been completed that indicate the consideration of spent fuel histories (''burnup credit'') in the design of spent fuel shipping casks is a justifiable concept that would result in cost savings and public risk benefits in the transport of spent nuclear fuel. Since cask capacities could be increased over those of casks without burnup credit, the number of shipments necessary to transport a given amount of fuel could be reduced.

Characterization of LWR Spent Fuel MCC-Approved Testing Material--ATM-101

Generic Reactivity Equivalence of PWR Fuel in Spent Fuel Storage Racks

Conservative Axial Burnup Distributions for Actinide-Only Burnup Credit

Reversibility and Retrievability in Planning for Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste-Proceedings of the "R&R" International Conference and Dialogue, December 14-17, 2010, Reims, France

In 2007 the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC) launched a four-year project on the topics of reversibility and retrievability in geological disposal. The goal of the project studies and activities (www.oecd-nea.org/rwm/rr) was to acknowledge the range of approaches to reversibility and retrievability (R&R), rather than to recommend a specific approach, and to provide a basis for reflection rather than to lead towards

Draft Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement

This Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) provides an analysis of the potential environmental impacts of the proposed Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) program, which is a United States (U.S.) Department of Energy (DOE) program intended to support a safe, secure, and sustainable expansion of nuclear energy, both domestically and internationally. Domestically, the GNEP Program would promote technologies that support economic, sustained production of nuclear-generated electricity, while reducing the impacts associated with

BRC Staff Draft - Background Paper on Commingling of Defense and Commercial Waste

CRS Report for Congress, Civilian Nuclear Spent Fuel Temporary Storage Options

The Department of Energy (DOE) is studying a site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for a permanent underground repository for highly radioactive spent fuel from nuclear reactors, but delays have pushed back the facility’s opening date to 2010 at the earliest. In the meantime, spent fuel is accumulating at U.S. nuclear plant sites at the rate of about 2,000 metric tons per year. Major options for managing those growing quantities of nuclear spent fuel include continued storage at reactors, construction of a DOE interim storage site near

Partnering for Long-term Management of Radioactive Waste-Evolution and Current Practice in Thirteen Countries

Lessons Learned from Three Mile Island Packaging, Transportation and Disposition that Apply to Fukushima Daiichi Recovery

Following the massive earthquake and resulting tsunami damage in March of 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, interest was amplified for what was done for recovery at the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) in the United States following its meltdown in 1979. Many parallels could be drawn between to two accidents. This paper presents the results of research done into the TMI-2 recovery effort and its applicability to the Fukushima Daiichi cleanup. This research focused on three topics:

Recommendations Related to Browns Ferry Fire (NUREG-0050)

On March 22, 1975, a fire was experienced at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant near Decatur, Alabama. The Special Review Group was established by the Executive Director for Operations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) soon after the fire to identify the lessons learned from this event and to make recommendations for the future in the light of these lessons. Unless further developments indicate a need to reconvene the Review Group, its task is considered complete with the publication of this report.

Safety Evaluation for Operation of Browns Ferry, Units 1 and 2, Following the March 22, 1975 Fire (NUREG-0061, Initial Report)

On March 22, 1975, a fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant caused a shutdown of Units 1 and 2. The facility subsequent to the shutdown was found to have incurred substantial damage to power, control, and instrumentation wiring. All three units are presently in the shutdown condition with the fuel removed from the vessels for Units 1 and 2; the Unit 3 reactor is still under construction with operation for that unit scheduled for early 1976.