ML15224B177
| ML15224B177 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Oconee, Surry, 07200002, 05000000 |
| Issue date: | 02/03/1988 |
| From: | Roberts J NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Rouse L NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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| NUDOCS 8802050075 | |
| Download: ML15224B177 (2) | |
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'.4B o 3 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR:
Leland C. Rouse, Chief Fuel Cycle Safety Branch Division of Industrial and Medical Nuclear Safety FROM:
John P. Roberts, Section Leader Irradiated Fuel Section Fuel Cycle Safety Branch
SUBJECT:
INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR MATERIALS MANAGEMENT (INMM) SPENT FUEL STORAGE SEMINAR V DATE/TIME:
January 20-22, 1988; 8:30 a.m.
LOCATION:
L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, DC ATTENDEES:
Registered with INMM PURPOSE:
To present invited paper at seminar DISCUSSION:
The seminar covered various topics of concern to spent'fuel storage beginning with institutional matters. Ben Cooper, an aid yWith the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, discussed the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987 (NWPAA) giving attendees insights into how Nevada came to be cited with respect to geologic repository siting and the inclusion of monitored retrievable storage.
Omer Brown III of Davis, Wright & Jones discussed progress of Price Anderson Act renewal efforts. He also discussed the position of DOE contractors and present alternate coverage for them under PL 85-804. He noted that subcontractors may not be automatically covered under PL 85-804 unless it is written into their contracts.
Joe Epstein substituting for Dwight Shelor covered DOE's international spent fuel storage program. Steve Kraft, Director, Utility Nuclear Waste Management Group, gave a utility perspective on NWPAA which was generally positive. William Higginbotham of Brookhaven National Laboratory discussed material accountability considerations, largely from an international perspective.
In the afternoon session on January 20th, licensing activities and dry cask topical report (TR) designs were discussed. Bob Rasmussen of Duke Power Company described Duke's plans for a dry concrete module and stainless canister system storage at Duke's Oconee plant site. This license application is to be filed after submittal of NUTECH's topical report on the modular system design at the end of February 1988.
Paul Fuhrman of Westinghouse Electric Corporation discussed Westinghouse's MC-10 ferritic steel cask design, which received an NMSS letter of approval in September 1987. Westinghouse plans to qualify the MC-10 for Part 71 certification for offsite transport.
Brian Wakeman of Virginia Power (VP) discussed dry cask spent fuel storage activities at VP's Surry Station site. He mentioned VP's intentions to seek 8802050075 88020 #
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consolidated fuel rod storage in an Nuclear Assurance Corporation (NAC) dry cask (submittal of the TR for this design is scheduled by NAC for the early February 1988.)
VP is also proceeding with plans for allowance for burnup credit in criticality design. VP has proceeded with work on this topic under contract with the Electric Power Research Institute.
Rod consolidation actions were discussed on the morning of January 21, 1988.
Charles Gerstberger of Westinghouse Electric Corporation reported on the successful demonstration of consolidation and canistering of fuel rods from 36 PWR assemblies at Prairie Island (Fuel assembly skeletons will be addressed in a later program.) The entire demonstration lasted from January through November 1987. However, the actual consolidation activity took only 251 days.
Bob Isakson of Northeast Utilities reported on the successful consolidation of spent fuel at a Millstone 2 demonstration. He expects that a license amendment will shortly be issued for Millstone 2 allowing consolidated fuel rod storage.
This action would provide sufficient storage capacity to carry the plant to end of life. His utility is now examining consolidated storage for Millstone 1.
Maggie Fisher discussed dry rod consolidation progress in.DOE demonstrations at Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. Consolidated spent fuel rods are currently stored in canisters in the Transnuclear TN-24P cask which has a capacity of 24 canisters. The work at Idaho is providing information on design and operation of dry rod consolidation facilities that should prove valuable with respect to the MRS and/or surface facilities at the repository.
Other papers of interest were presented, but I shall not attempt to detail them all.
On the morning of January 22nd, Bob Gilbert presented work at Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory on spent fuel clad durability studies and on fuel oxidation versus temperature studies. This work has been valuable in the past on characterizing spent fuel under inert gas storage conditions. It is also providing information on the potential for spent fuel storage in air, which is also of assistance to NRC.
When I had spoken before Gilbert's presentation, I referred to Battelle's work and noted that he would be discussing it in conjunction with NRC sponsored work (He had informed me of this.)
He did so very well.
My paper on the status of dry storage licensing and rulemaking was well received.
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John P. Roberts, Section Leader Irradiated Fuel Section Fuel Cycle Safety Branch Distribution:
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