Dry cask storage

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History

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the need for alternative storage began to grow when pools at many nuclear reactors began to fill up with stored spent fuel. As there was not a national storage facility in operation (Yucca Mountain was, and remains, embroiled in controversy), utilities began looking at options for storing spent fuel. Dry cask storage was one of the most practical options for temporary storage.

The first dry storage installation was licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 1986 at the Surry Nuclear Power Plant in Virginia. Spent fuel is currently stored in dry cask systems at a growing number of power plant sites, and at an interim facility located at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates that many of the nuclear power plants in the United States will be out of room in their spent fuel pools by 2015, most likely requiring the use of temporary storage of some kind. Yucca Mountain was expected to open in 2017. However, the Obama administration announced in February 2009 they would be scrapping the project. bamboo storage box

In Canada, above-ground dry storage has been used for a number of years. Ontario Power Generation is in the process of constructing a Dry Storage Cask storage facility on its Darlington site, which will be similar in many respects to existing facilities at Pickering Nuclear Generating Station and Bruce Nuclear Generating Station. NB Power's Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station and Hydro-Qubec's Gentilly Nuclear Generating Station also both operate dry storage facilities. closet drawer organizer

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Radioactive waste

Goshute reservation Proposed storage location in Utah.

Spent fuel pool

Spent nuclear fuel shipping cask

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References

^ NRC; Dry Cask Storage Figure 43

^ NRC Graph of Spent Fuel Capacity

^ Ontario Power Generation ; Darlington Waste Management Facility

External links

NRC: Dry Cask Storage

Locations of Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations

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