Range of Neutronic Parameters Calculation File

The purpose of this engineering calculation is to document the benchmark range, over a variety of parameters, for the validation of the criticality calculations supporting the Monitored Geologic Repository (MGR). This engineering calculation accomplishes this by characterizing the Laboratory Critical Experiments (LCE) and the Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) Commercial Reactor Criticals (CRC), and summarizing the significant parameters. This engineering calculation supports the Disposal Criticality Analysis Methodology program.

Waste Acceptance System Requirements Document, Revision 5, ICN 01

The purpose of this document is to establish waste acceptance technical requirements for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Civilian Radioactive Waste Management System (CRWMS). These requirements and functions consist of two types: (a) internal CRWMS requirements derived from the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management System Requirements Document (CRD) (DOE 2007a) as illustrated in Figure 1, and (b) acceptance criteria imposed by the CRWMS on spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level waste (HLW) delivered into the CRWMS.

slides - Vision/Proposed Actions for Regulatory Improvements - Looking to the Future

Presented at the NEI Used Fuel Management Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, May 7-9, 2013

TEV Collision with an Emplaced 5-DHLW/DOE SNF Short Co-Disposal Waste Package

The objective of this calculation is to determine the structural response of the 5-DHLW/DOE (Defense High Level Waste/Department of Energy) SNF (Spent Nuclear Fuel) Short Co-disposal Waste Package (WP) when subjected (while in the horizontal orientation emplaced in the drift) to a collision by a loaded (with WP) Transport and Emplacement Vehicle (TEV) due to an over-run. The scope of this calculation is limited to reporting the calculation results in terms of maximum total stress intensities (Sis) in the outer corrosion barrier (dCB).

Report on Radioactive Waste Ownership and Management of Long-Term Liabilities in EDRAM Member Countries

This report has been prepared by an ad-hoc Working Group (WG) formed by ANDRA (France), NUMO (Japan), NAGRA (Switzerland) and ENRESA (Spain) in May 2003, after the EDRAM meeting held in Valencia to study the situation in the different EDRAM member countries regarding the treatment of radioactive waste ownership and management of long-term liabilities.

Program of Research and Development for Management and Disposal of Commercially Generated Radioactive Wastes: Record of Decision

This Record of Decision has been prepared pursuant to the Regulations of the council on Environmental Quality, 40 CFR Part 1805, on the selection of a strategy for the disposal of commercially-generated radioactive wastes and the supporting program of research and development. The United States Department of Energy has decided to (1) adopt a strategy to develop mined geologic repositories for disposal of commercially-generated high-level and transuranic radioactive wastes (while continuing to examine

One Step at a Time: The Staged Development of Geologic Repositories for High-Level Radioactive Waste - Summary

A new report from the National Academies proposes a management approach called “adaptive staging” as a promising means to develop geologic repositories for high-level waste such as the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Adaptive staging is a learn-as-you-go process that enables project managers to continuously reevaluate and adjust the program in response to new knowledge and stakeholder input.

Radioactive Waste Repository Licensing, Synopsis of a Symposium, Executive Summary

This book recounts the issues raised and the viewpoints aired at a recent symposium on repository licensing. It summarizes the problems surrounding the setting of an Environmental Protection Agency standard for the release of radionuclides and the regulatory problems inherent in meeting such a standard. Symposium participants came from a variety of federal agencies and advisory groups, state governments, public interest groups, engineering firms, national laboratories, and foreign and international organizations.

Letter to The Honorable Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy - Blue Ribbon Commission request for approval to establish and populate the three subcommittees.

Dear Secretary Chu: Thank you for your remarks to the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future at our inaugural meeting on March 25, 2010. Your guidance was both enlightening and invaluable as we establish a plan to fulfill the Commission’s charter.

DSNF and Other Waste Form Degradation Abstraction

Several hundred distinct types of DOE-owned spent nuclear fuel (DSNF) may potentially be disposed in the Yucca Mountain repository. These fuel types represent many more types than can be viably individually examined for their effect on the Total System Performance Assessment for the License Application (TSPA-LA). Additionally, for most of these fuel types, there is no known direct experimental test data for the degradation and dissolution of the waste form in repository groundwaters.

1999 Design Basis Waste Input Report for Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel

The purpose of this document is to provide waste quantity and sequencing information that serves as the design basis for commercial spent nuclear fuel (CSNF) arriving at the repository, and the information on the transportation systems that will be used to deliver this fuel. It is intended as input for waste package and repository design analyses needed to ensure that facilities are flexible enough to be capable of receiving, unloading, handling, and emplacing the amounts and types of CSNF expected for receipt under realistic bounding conditions.

Criticality Analysis of Assembly Misload in a PWR Burnup Credit Cask

The Interim Staff Guidance on burnup credit (ISG-8) for spent fuel in storage and transportation casks, issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Spent Fuel Project Office, recommends a burnup measurement for each assembly to confirm the reactor record and compliance with the assembly burnup value used for loading acceptance. This recommendation is intended to prevent unauthorized loading (misloading) of assemblies due to inaccuracies in reactor burnup records and/or improper assembly identification, thereby ensuring that the appropriate subcritical margin is maintained.

slides - Exelon Dry Cask Storage Program, 2012 Campaign Summary

Presented at the NEI Used Fuel Management Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, May 7-9, 2013

Attachment 2 - Annual Cost Profile (in Millions of 2007$), reply to Letter to Mr. Tim Frazier

The table is based on historical costs through 2006, which are shaded, and projected costs in the 2008 TSLCC. To convert to 2010$, multiply by 1.0586. The 2008 TSLCC assumes a single repository system capable of accepting and disposing of SNF and HLW equivalent to 122,100 Metric Tons of Heavy Metal (MTHM). This estimate includes all defense wastes currently destined for disposal at Yucca Mountain and projected discharges of SNF from commercial utilities, including the 47 nuclear power reactors that had received license extensions from the NRC as of January 2007.

Deciding for the Future: Balancing Risks, Costs, and Benefits, Fairly Across Generations

The key challenge of this National Academy of Public Administration project is captured in the subtitle of this report, Balancing Risks, Costs, and Benefits Fairly Across Generations.

slides - Long Term BORAL Corrosion Performance

Presented at the NEI Used Fuel Management Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, May 7-9, 2013

Enhancing the Role of State and Local Governments in America’s Nuclear Future: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

This paper, prepared to aid the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future in its deliberations, includes a discussion of the issues that would be faced in the siting, permitting and licensing of storage and disposal facilities for the “back end” of the commercial nuclear fuel cycle and for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) high–level radioactive waste. It discusses the authority that could be employed by non–federal levels of government in supporting or opposing

Engineered Barrier System: Physical and Chemical Environment

The purpose of this model report is to describe the evolution of the physical and chemical environmental conditions within the waste emplacement drifts of the repository, including the drip shield and waste package surfaces. This report documents the development of a new process-level model, the near-field chemistry (NFC) model, and develops two abstraction models.

Configuration Generator Model

The Disposal Criticality Analysis Methodology Topical Report prescribes an approach to the methodology for performing postclosure criticality analyses within the monitored geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. An essential component of the methodology is the Configuration Generator Model for In-Package Criticality that provides a tool to evaluate the probabilities of degraded configurations achieving a critical state.

slides - The Importance of Crane Maintenance

Presented at the NEI Used Fuel Management Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, May 7-9, 2013

slides - Prairie Island ISFSI License Renewal and High Burn Up Fuel Contention

Presented at the NEI Used Fuel Management Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, May 7-9, 2013

Going the Distance? The Safe Transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in the United States - Summary

This new report from the National Research Council’s Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board (NRSB) and the Transportation Research Board reviews the risks and technical and societal concerns for the transport of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in the United States. Shipments are expected to increase as the U.S. Department of Energy opens a repository for spent fuel and high-level waste at Yucca Mountain, and the commercial nuclear industry considers constructing a facility in Utah for temporary storage of spent fuel from some of its nuclear waste plants.

Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future Report to the Secretary of Energy

This report highlights the findings and conclusions of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future (BRC) and presents recommendations for consideration by the Administration and Congress, as well as interested state, tribal and local governments, other stakeholders, and the public.

Helping a Community Control its Future: Potential Negotiating Packages and Benefits for an MRS Host

The voluntary siting process for the Monitored Retrievable Storage (MRS) facility set forth in the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act (NWPAA) of 1987 provides a potential host community a unique opportunity to improve its present situation and to gain greater control over its future.