Author: United States. Monitored Retrievable Storage Review CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Nuclear Waste
Author: United States. Monitored Retrievable Storage Review CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309096472
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
In response to a request from Congress, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Homeland Security sponsored a National Academies study to assess the safety and security risks of spent nuclear fuel stored in cooling pools and dry casks at commercial nuclear power plants. The information provided in this book examines the risks of terrorist attacks using these materials for a radiological dispersal device. Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel is an unclassified public summary of a more detailed classified book. The book finds that successful terrorist attacks on spent fuel pools, though difficult, are possible. A propagating fire in a pool could release large amounts of radioactive material, but rearranging spent fuel in the pool during storage and providing emergency water spray systems would reduce the likelihood of a propagating fire even under severe damage conditions. The book suggests that additional studies are needed to better understand these risks. Although dry casks have advantages over cooling pools, pools are necessary at all operating nuclear power plants to store at least the recently discharged fuel. The book explains it would be difficult for terrorists to steal enough spent fuel to construct a significant radiological dispersal device.
Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
The Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Author: Nicholas TsoulfanidisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780894484605
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Implementation Plan for Deployment of Federal Interim Storage Facilities for Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel
Author: Setting the Stage for International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facilities
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309119618
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
In May 2003, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Academies organized an international workshop in Moscow on the scientific issues relevant to the establishment and operation of an international spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Russia. Given the broad international interest in this topic, the academies organized a second international workshop on important issues that were not on the agenda or were not adequately discussed at the first workshop. These issues included international monitoring at the facility, transportation requirements, liability and insurance concerns, and status of Russian legislation and regulations that are important in locating and operating a facility. Relevant experience from Europe, the United States, and Asia was also considered in this 2005 workshop. This book contains the papers presented at the 2005 workshop sessions, as well as proceedings from the 2003 workshop. Together they provide an overview of the issues, and useful background for those organizations and individuals involved in further development of an international spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Russia.
Federal Facilities for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel, are They Needed?
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government property
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Department of Energy Study on Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage
Author: United States. Department of EnergyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Report on Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel. Midwestern High-level Radioactive Waste Transportation Project
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The report on interim storage of spent nuclear fuel discusses the technical, regulatory, and economic aspects of spent-fuel storage at nuclear reactors. The report is intended to provide legislators state officials and citizens in the Midwest with information on spent-fuel inventories, current and projected additional storage requirements, licensing, storage technologies, and actions taken by various utilities in the Midwest to augment their capacity to store spent nuclear fuel on site.
Away-from-reactor Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
Author: Patricia M. DinneenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description