ACHIEVING READINESS FOR THE LARGEST COMMERCIAL CROSS-COUNTRY SHIPMENT OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL IN THE U.S.

摘要

The West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) is an environmental cleanup project at the siternof the only commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant to have operated in the United States.rnNuclear Fuel Services, Inc. halted reprocessing operations in 1972 and left 750 used commercialrnnuclear fuel assemblies (previously sent to the site for reprocessing) in the facility’s fuel storagernpool.rnA total of 625 assemblies were returned to the utilities that owned them in the 1980s. This paperrnwill discuss a significant two-year effort to ensure readiness and complete operations to load thernremaining 125 spent fuel assemblies into specially designed casks for transportation from thernWVDP to the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL).