Safety aspects of long dry interim cask storage of spent fuel in Germany
- Dry cask storage of spent fuel and high active waste front reprocessing is licensed and established in Germany for up to 40years so far. About 10years ago, the strategy has been shifted from centralized storage using facilities in Ahaus and Gorleben to cit-site storage facilities in Order to avoid immediate cask shipping from nuclear power plants. At present, several hundred casks are stored safeiy and without any major problem. BAM is highly involved in cask specific safety evaluations within the scope of licensing procedures as well as of quality assurance procedures during cask fabrication, loading and storage. A major prerequisite for any cask storage license is a valid transport Type B license. Subsequently, cask transportability has to be ensured at any point during the entire storage period. So far, this requirement is met by continuous maintenance of the Type B license. Anyhow, IAEA Type B regulations do not consider permanently loaded storage casks that have the sole purposeDry cask storage of spent fuel and high active waste front reprocessing is licensed and established in Germany for up to 40years so far. About 10years ago, the strategy has been shifted from centralized storage using facilities in Ahaus and Gorleben to cit-site storage facilities in Order to avoid immediate cask shipping from nuclear power plants. At present, several hundred casks are stored safeiy and without any major problem. BAM is highly involved in cask specific safety evaluations within the scope of licensing procedures as well as of quality assurance procedures during cask fabrication, loading and storage. A major prerequisite for any cask storage license is a valid transport Type B license. Subsequently, cask transportability has to be ensured at any point during the entire storage period. So far, this requirement is met by continuous maintenance of the Type B license. Anyhow, IAEA Type B regulations do not consider permanently loaded storage casks that have the sole purpose of being finally shipped öfter decades of storage inducing ageing effects. No transport safety demonstration has to be performed on aged cask components.…
Autor*innen: | Holger Völzke, Dietmar Wolff |
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Dokumenttyp: | Beitrag zu einem Tagungsband |
Veröffentlichungsform: | Graue Literatur |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | IHLRWM 2011 - International high-level radioactive waste management conference (Proceedings) |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2011 |
Herausgeber (Institution): | American nuclear society (ANS) |
Erste Seite: | 712 |
Letzte Seite: | 719 |
Freie Schlagwörter: | Cask; Interim storage; Safety; Spent fuel |
Veranstaltung: | International high-level radioactive waste management conference (IHLRWMC 2011) |
Veranstaltungsort: | Albuquerque, NM, USA |
Beginndatum der Veranstaltung: | 10.04.2011 |
Enddatum der Veranstaltung: | 14.04.2011 |
Verfügbarkeit des Dokuments: | Datei im Netzwerk der BAM verfügbar ("Closed Access") |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 19.02.2016 |
Referierte Publikation: | Ja |
Datum der Eintragung als referierte Publikation: | 16.05.2011 |