Identification of Facility Constraints That Impact Transportation Operations
As Federal Waste Management Systems (FWMS) receiving facilities become available, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) intends to begin accepting spent nuclear fuel from U.S. utilities...
U.S. Department of Energy Motor Carrier Evaluation Program
The U.S. Department of Energy-Headquarters (DOE-HQ), Transportation Management Division (TMD) has the overall responsibility to provide a well-managed transportation program for the safe,...
MRS Systems Study, Task F: Transportation Impacts of a Monitored Retrievable Storage Facility
The passage of the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987 (NWPAA) modified the basis from which the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) had derived and developed...
Development of Rail Access to the Yucca Mountain Site: Technical and Publc Issues
The Yucca Mountain site, located on the southwestern edge of the Nevada Test Site (NTS), is an undeveloped area under investigation as a potential site for high-level nuclear waste (HLW)...
Optimal Route Selection for High Level Nuclear Waste Transport Based Upon Radiological Risk
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate route optimization based directly upon the minimization of radiological risk as computed from local conditions. An operational impact analysis...
The SKI Regulatory Strategy and Performance Assessment Program in Relation to Final Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High Level Radioactive Waste
Important steps are planned to be made during the 1990s in the Swedish program for final disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high level radioactive wastes. Site selection will be done in...
PAGIS & PACOMA: Performance Evaluations of Deep Geological Disposal. Results and Conclusions
Two coordinated research projects were undertaken by the Commission of the European Communities to study the safety performances of geological radwaste disposal systems in the post-operational...
A Proposed Methodology for Validating Performance Assessment Models for the DOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management Program
The Department of Energy (DOE) has developed a draft methodology for validating performance assessment models that will be used in the licensing of high-level waste repository systems....
Initiating Event Identification and Screening for Nuclear Waste Repository Preclosure Risk Assessment
This paper describes a method to identify potential initiating events that might occur during the preclosure phase at a nuclear waste repository proposed for the Yucca Mountain area of...
Preclosure Safety Analysis for a Prospective Yucca Mountain Conceptual Design Repository
A preliminary probabilistic risk assessment was performed for the prospective Yucca Mountain conceptual design repository. A new methodology to quantify radioactive source terms was developed...
Status of Integrated Performance Assessment of the Waste Packages and Engineered Barrier System
Performance assessment of the engineered barrier system for a nuclear waste repository combines information from relevant disciplines and predicts the net long-term performance of the...
A Waste Package Strategy for Regulatory Compliance
This paper summarizes the strategy given in the Site Characterization Plan (SCP) for demonstrating complicance with the post closure performance objectives for the waste package and the...
Container Material Selection, Modeling and Testing
Virtually all of the approximately 40,000 high-level nuclear wast containers to be emplaced at Yucca Mountain must remain intact for 1,000 years to satisfy Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
MIIT; International In-Situ Testing of Simulated HLW Forms?Preliminary Analyses of SRL 165/TDS Waste Glass and Metal Systems
The first in-situ tests involving burial of simulated high-level waste (HLW) forms conducted in the United States were started on July 22, 1986. This effort, called the Materials Interface...
Role of Waste Packages in the Safety of a High Level Waste Repository in a Deep Geological Formation
The safety of a radioactive waste disposal facility lays on the three following barriers placed between the radioactive materials and the biosphere: the waste package, the engineered barriers,...
Optimizing Spent Fuel Cask Designs for Use in the Federal Waste Management System
The DOE will design and develop a new fleet of casks to transport spent fuel using innovative approaches to optimize the cask design. Preliminary casks designs indicate capacity increases...
State of Nevada Nuclear Waste Shipping Cask Design Studies
The State of Nevada has sponsored several contractor studies regarding nuclear waste shipping cask design issues. A comprehensive transportation needs assessment completed in 1988 recommended...
BR-100 Spent Fuel Shipping Cask Development
Continued public acceptance of commercial nuclear power is contingent to a large degree on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) establishing an integrated waste management system for spent...
An Innovative Cask for Transporting Defense High-Level Waste
In the early 1980s, the U.S. Department of Energy/Defense Programs (DOE/DP) initiated a project to develop a safe and efficient transportation system for defense high-level waste (DHLW)....
TN28V High Capacity Cask for the Transport and Storage of Vitrified Wastes
When the option of reprocessing has been selected, closing of the fuel cycle implies the return shipment of reprocessing wastes back to the country of origin of the spent fuel, in particular...
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