Presentation made at International Conference on The Management of Spent Nuclear Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors, An Integrated approach to the Back-End of the Fuel Cycle (IAEA-CN-226). The purpose of the conference was to highlight the importance of an integrated long-term approach to the management of spent fuel from nuclear power reactors.
These slides were presented by Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) to the NRC at the June 16, 2015 pre-application public meeting at the NRC offices in Rockville, Maryland.
This presentation was given at the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB) meeting June 24, 2015 in Golden, Colorado. It covered the standardized transportation, aging, and disposal (STAD) canister design work being performed by DOE and responded to a number of NWTRB questions.
Presentation made at International Conference on The Management of Spent Nuclear Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors, An Integrated approach to the Back-End of the Fuel Cycle (IAEA-CN-226). The purpose of the conference was to highlight the importance of an integrated long-term approach to the management of spent fuel from nuclear power reactors.
Link to NEI's website where the 2015 NEI Used Fuel Management Conference presentations can be downloaded.
Day 1
Session 0, Opening Plenary
Korsnick, Maria
Exelon Generation
Nuclear Energy in a Changing Marketplace
Lombard, Mark
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRC Management Perspective: What’s Up?
McCullum, Rod
Nuclear Energy Institute
Management Perspectives
Session 1, Used Fuel Policy
Social Scientists such as Hank Jenkins-Smith from the University of Oklahoma have suggested that the structured evaluation of beliefs and preferences measured in annual survey and social media data streams can assist program managers in making nuclear facility siting programs responsive and adaptive to the evolution of nuclear narratives. This presentation will provide an engineering and project management perspective on how ongoing social science research can be used.
This paper assesses the feasibility of direct disposal of loaded dual-purpose canisters (DPCs) from a criticality standpoint by evaluating attributes that could be credited to justify that the DPCs remain subcritical over a repository performance period. This study investigates the uncredited criticality margin associated with actual fuel loading compared with the regulatory licensing design basis limits and evaluates the percentage of DPCs that remain subcritical solely based on the uncredited criticality margin.
