ENVIRONMENTALLY SEQUESTERED SPENT FUEL POOL

摘要

In one embodiment, the environmentally isolated spent fuel reservoir includes a base slab and sidewalls that enclose the water body. The reservoir includes a fuel rack that includes spent fuel assemblies that heat water through radioactive decay. The double liner system surrounding the water tank forms an impermeable barrier that provides sufficient equipment to prevent the contaminated water from leaking into the environment. A space between the liner that can be maintained at negative pressure is formed by the vacuum pump system that exhausts the space. By maintaining the pressure in the space at a negative pressure with a corresponding boiling point temperature below the water temperature of the water in the tank, the leakage into the crevice space through the innermost liner evaporates, and through the pump to signal a potential leak in the liner system And extracted.