Open AccessSpent Nuclear Fuel Alternative Technology Decision Analysis
Author(s) -
C.B. Shedrow
Publication year - 1999
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/15029
Subject(s) - spent nuclear fuel , savannah river site , waste management , radioactive waste , nuclear technology , environmental science , nuclear fuel , engineering , nuclear engineering , nuclear power , nuclear physics , physics
The Westinghouse Savannah River Company (WSRC) made a FY98 commitment to the Department of Energy (DOE) to recommend a technology for the disposal of aluminum-based spent nuclear fuel (SNF) at the Savannah River Site (SRS). The two technologies being considered, direct co-disposal and melt and dilute, had been previously selected from a group of eleven potential SNF management technologies by the Research Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel Task Team chartered by the DOE''s Office of Spent Fuel Management. To meet this commitment, WSRC organized the SNF Alternative Technology Program to further develop the direct co-disposal and melt and dilute technologies and ultimately provide a WSRC recommendation to DOE on a preferred SNF alternative management technology