hanford spent nuclear fuel and cesium/strontium capsule status presented by sen moy - rl national...
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Hanford Spent Nuclear Fuel and Cesium/Strontium Capsule Status
Presented by Sen Moy - RL
National SNF MeetingNovember 8, 2005
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•Dry Storage of N Reactor and Single-Pass Reactor Fuel
•Site-Wide Fuel Consolidation• Fast Flux Test Facility Fuel• Oregon State University Fuel
•Disposition of Cesium and Strontium Capsules
Hanford Spent Nuclear Fuel Status
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Hanford Spent Nuclear Fuel Status
• Removal of Canistered Fuel at K Basins Complete– Fuel loaded into 386 Multi-Canister
Overpacks, dried, and transferred to Canister Storage Building for final closure weld and interim storage
– Sludge and debris retrieval activities on-going at K Basins
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Dry Storage of N Reactor and Single-Pass Reactor Fuel
• Up to 3 additional MCO(s) anticipated for fuel and scrap discovered during sludge removal, some found fuel– Fuel inventoried as unknown SPR, likely PRTR fuel– 2+ SPR elements at B/C Reactor burial grounds– SPR elements/pieces and N Fuel element at KW Basin
• Welding (with N Stamp) completed for 397 MCOs (includes 18 containing Shippingport SNF) – No defects to date – 7 MCOs in sampling/monitoring program will be welded
in future; remaining 1-3 MCOs from K Basins will be welded at that time
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Site-Wide Fuel Consolidation
• Deinventory of Fuel from Fast Flux Test Facility On-going
– Loading of non-sodium bonded fuel into Interim Storage Casks ~90% complete; scheduled transfer of remaining fuel to 200 Area in March 2006
– Schedule transfer of sodium bonded fuel to INL beginning in FY2006; Modification of Certificate of Compliance for T-3 Cask on-going
• Oregon State University TRIGA Fuel Retrieval and Transfer to 200 Area Interim Storage Area scheduled to start April 2006.
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Disposition of Cesium/Strontium Capsules
• Hanford baseline assumes direct disposal of capsules at Yucca Mountain beginning in 2018
• 1,936 cesium and strontium capsules currently in wet storage at Hanford Site
– 1335 capsules containing cesium chloride
– 601 capsules containing strontium fluoride
– 127 million curies in August 2003
• YMP EIS include capsule inventory within Immobilized High Level Waste. Draft YMP License Application do not address capsule inventory.
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Disposition of Cesium/Strontium Capsules
• Tri-Party Agreement milestone due June 2007 to assess viability of direct disposal and submit change request to establish enforceable milestones to achieve cesium and strontium disposition by 2028
• Capsules are designated as RCRA regulated
• RL strategy is to pursue direct disposal to YMP and complete regulatory strategy to exempt/de-list hazardous constituents to allow disposal at YMP
• Complete performance assessment in FY 2006 to support viability assessment