Impact of the Proposed Addition of 3 Un-Extracted Cycle 6 TPBARs to the Lead Teset Assembly

摘要

The Tritium Readiness Program is planning to ship three (3) additional unextracted Tritium Producing Burnable Absorber Rods (TPBARs) in the Lead Test Assembly (LTA) container to SRS for disposal. These rods are from the PIE (Post Irradiation Examination) program that is currently underway at ANL-W and will not have been extracted. The three rods were irradiated in Watts Bar Cycle 6 (irradiation was completed on February 22, 2005) after which they were sent to ANL-W for neutron radiography and gamma scanning. Once arriving at SRS, the LTA will be placed within the first TPBAR disposal container which will then be disposed within the Intermediate Level Vault (ILV). To determine the potential impact with respect to those performance measures, this UDQE addresses the proposed action to include the 3 PIE TPBARs, with an associated 2.8E+04 Ci of tritium, within the LTA.