Advanced Handling Technology Project and Implications for Cask Design.

摘要

This paper describes the results of the ongoing Advanced Handling Technologies Project (AHTP) at SNL. AHTP was initiated in 1986 to explore the use of advanced robotic systems to perform cask handling operations at radioactive waste handling facilities and to provide guidance to cask designers regarding the impact of robotic handling on cask design. The proof of concept systems developed in AHTP are intended to extrapolate from currently available commercial systems to those that would be available by the time that an actual repository would be open for operation. These systems provide test facilities for the investigation of the robotic handling of alternate cask design features. The following sections describe: (1) the approach used in AHTP to select operations for proof of concept robotic systems and to identify the cask design implications; (2) the separate proof of concept robotic systems developed in AHTP; and (3) preliminary insights into the impact of cask system design features on the feasibility of robotic performance of cask handling operations. 11 refs., 2 figs., 2 tabs.