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Dry Storage of Used Fuel Transition to Transport

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Leduc, Dan
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Abstract

This report provides details of dry storage cask systems and contents in U.S. for commercial light water
reactor fuel. Section 2 contains details on the canisters used to store approximately 86% of assemblies in
dry storage in the U.S. Transport cask details for bare fuels, dual purpose casks and canister transport
casks are included in Section 3. Section 4 details the inventory of those shutdown sites without any
operating reactors. Information includes the cask type deployed, transport license and status as well as
fuel types allowed in the specified cask system and allowable parameters. Section 5 contains details on
the transfer casks used with each cask system including the current number of transfer casks of each type
fabricated.

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