Aging Facility Criticality Safety Calculations
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This design calculation is a revision of the previous criticality evaluation of the operations and
processes that are performed in the Aging Facility. It will also demonstrate and assure that the
storage and aging operations to be performed in the Aging Facility meet the criticality safety
design criteria in the Project Design Criteria Document (BSC 2005i, Section 4.9.2.2), and the
nuclear criticality safety requirements described in the SNF Aging System Description Document
(BSC 2005c, p. 3-24). The scope of this design calculation covers the systems and processes for
aging commercial spent nuclear fuel (CSNF) and Department of Energy (DOE) SNF/High-Level
Waste (HLW) prior to its placement in the final waste package (WP) (BSC 2005c, Section 1.1).
The SNF aging system addresses thermal management for the repository and also provides
flexibility for the repository by aging CSNF, and for management of DOE SNF, and DOE HLW
until it can be processed by the available facilities (BSC 2005c, p. 1-2).
