Total System Model Version 6.0 Transportation Design and Bases

The Civilian Radioactive Waste Management System (CRWMS) Total System Model (TSM) is
a planning tool that estimates the logistic and cost impacts of various operational assumptions in
accepting radioactive wastes. Waste forms currently tracked are commercial spent nuclear fuel
(CSNF), Department of Energy (DOE) Spent Nuclear Fuel (DOE SNF), and High-Level
(radioactive) Waste (HLW). The TSM and associated programs analyze and simulate the actions
for waste acceptance from discharge until emplacement.
The TSM is a PC-based, user-friendly, systems model that provides easy to understand Graphical
User Interface (GUI) with dynamic simulation screens to serve as a decision aid for overall
Office of the Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) disposal objectives. The
TSM is:
• a real-time process simulation model that achieves the established requirements to
perform systems analysis such as the so-called “Phase 1 TAD Study” (BSC 2005) and the
Critical Decision-1 Study (BSC 2006a). The TSM provides a rapid means to evaluate
alternative approaches to achieve program and project goals,
• based on established process optimization tools and methods, usability and accepted
system analysis techniques; and
• an end-to-end model with interaction of waste acceptance, transportation, and repository
parameters and constraints.
As shown in Figure 1, the functional design of the TSM is to integrate the elements of the
CRWMS mission. Elements of the TSM are discussed in References BSC 2007a, BSC 2007b,
BSC 2007c, and BSC 2007d. Specific values for the transportation parameters in this report are
discussed in the TSM Transportation Validation Report (BSC 2007e). This report covers TSM
Version 6.0 (V6.0), and changes that could impact transportation are discussed in the TSM User
Manual (BSC 2007a), Section 1.5 and in Section 1.4 of this report. There were no impacts to the
transportation behavior as addressed in the TSM V6.0 Validation Report (BSC 2007f).
This document was prepared in accordance with AP-ENG-006, Total System Model (TSM) –
Changes to Configuration Items and Base Case.