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Nuclear Fuels Storage & Transportation Planning Project Office of Fuel Cycle Technologies

Nuclear Energy Overview of DOE-NEs Nuclear Fuels Storage and Transportation Planning Project (NFST) Joe Carter Storage Control Account Manager of the DOE-NEs Nuclear Fuels Storage and Transportation Planning Project (Savannah River National Laboratory) UFD R&D Working Group Meeting June 7, 2016 Las Vegas, NV

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DOE-NEs NFST Program is Planning for Interim Storage and Transportation as Part of an Integrated Waste Management System

Mission Lay the groundwork for implementing interim storage, including

associated transportation, per the Administrations Strategy for the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste

Develop the foundation for a new nuclear waste management organization

Purpose Make progress on this important national issue within existing

legislative and budget authorizations

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Strategy for the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste Guides NFSTs Activities

With the appropriate authorizations from Congress, the Administration currently plans to implement a program that:

Sites, designs and licenses, constructs and begins operations of a pilot interim storage facility with an initial focus on accepting used nuclear fuel from shut-down reactor sites;

Advances toward the siting and licensing of a larger interim storage facility that will have sufficient capacity to provide flexibility in the waste management system and allows for acceptance of enough used nuclear fuel to reduce expected government liabilities; and

Makes demonstrable progress on the siting and characterization of repository sites to facilitate the availability of a geologic repository


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Near-Term Objectives to Lay the Groundwork for Strategy Implementation

Develop and maintain an integrated plan to accomplish the Strategy goals

Improve integration of storage as a planned part of the waste management system, including evaluating standardization of dry cask storage systems

Develop and evaluate facility design options for an integrated waste management system

Develop and apply systems analyses to provide quantitative estimates of system impacts of utility and federal actions and inform future decisions

Establish the basis and identify options for management decisions on an integrated waste management system

Prepare for the large-scale transportation of SNF and HLW, with an initial focus on removing SNF from the shutdown reactor sites

Establish and maintain a unified and integrated SNF database and analysis system to characterize the input to the waste management system


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DOE-NEs NFST Program is Organized into Four Key Elements

* Indicates areas that are not currently active

Consent-Based Siting

Siting process design Communication products Site evaluation and selection* Site acquisition*

Transportation Institutional Operational Hardware

Storage Design NEPA Regulatory Construction* Operations*

Strategic Crosscuts

Project management Systems analyses Data/document access Standardization/

integration Characterization and

Assessment


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Supporting the Development of a Publicly Accepted Consent- Based Siting Process

To launch the consent-based siting effort, the DOE issued an Invitation for Public Comment in the Federal Register soliciting input on important considerations in designing a fair and effective process for siting Input can be provided in response to

the Invitation for Public Comment in the Federal Register or via email at [email protected]

DOE is holding public meetings around the country to hear from the public, communities, states, Tribes, and all interested stakeholders on what matters to them in moving forward in developing a consent-based process

http://www.energy.gov/ne/consent-based-siting


mailto:[email protected]

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Supporting the Development of a Publicly Accepted Consent- Based Siting Process

Continue populating and maintaining a database of prior siting efforts http://curie.ornl.gov/SED/pages/sed-homepage

Continue gaining additional insights on public preference

Developing communication products to support public interactions


http://curie.ornl.gov/SED/pages/sed-homepage

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Evaluating interim storage design concepts, with input from industry contractors Generic Design Alternatives for Dry Storage of

Used Nuclear Fuel (CB&I) Preparing to develop a generic pilot ISF

design and Topical Safety Analysis Report Procurement underway

Initiating development of a draft licensing strategy for a pilot ISF

Initiating development of an environmental considerations document

Continuing efforts related to Aging Management at an ISF Participation in EPRI ESCP ASME code case: Examination Requirements and

Acceptance Standards for Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Canisters

Laying the Groundwork for Consolidated Interim Storage


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Dry Storage Design Concepts for Consolidated Interim Storage (Flexible, Adaptable, and Expandable)

Dry Storage Alternatives Pad storage using currently licensed storage

overpacks New concrete overpacks

Vault configurations Horizontal, vertical Above and below grade

Canister Receipt Commercially available transfer systems

Mobile cranes, no weather enclosure Installed cranes, weather enclosure

Canister transfer building Canister transfer building with remote operations

Tradeoffs associated with each concept Input to integrated waste management

system analysis


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Developing the Large-Scale Transportation System

Continuing interaction and collaboration with stakeholders Developing plans for transportation operations Understanding rail route selection and rail inspection options Working to finalize DOEs Section 180(c) Policy

Continuing development of the Stakeholder Tool for Assessing Radioactive Transportation (START)

DOE is developing a railcar to comply with the Association of American Railroads Standard S-2043 Contract with AREVA to design S-2043-compliant cask and buffer railcars, and to

fabricate prototypes Future contract for prototype testing DOE is evaluating several possible contracting options for large-scale fleet fabrication

and operations

Note: Route shown for illustrative purposes only June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting

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Potential Transportation Routes Generated by START

START generates potential routes for possible future transportation operations Web-based application of geographic information system (GIS) data and analysis Includes transportation infrastructure for rail, truck, and barge Uses data related to populations, land uses, emergency response, etc. Ability to generate multiple routes based on user requests

Min population Min travel time (with restrictions)

Min travel time

Example route is for illustrative purposes only and does not reflect a selected destination site


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Developing the Large-Scale Transportation System

Planning efforts to remove SNF from shutdown reactor sites Collecting and documenting information related to site

inventory, site conditions, and near-site transportation infrastructure and experience

Visited 12 of the 13 shutdown sites: Vermont Yankee visit May 10-12

Updating the shutdown sites report Preparing initial site-specific de-inventory analysis for

five shutdown sites Understanding of the tasks and interfaces necessary for the

complete de-inventory Connecticut Yankee, Big Rock Point, Humbolt Bay, Trojan, Maine

Yankee

MP187 Transportation Cask Heavy Haul to Rancho Seco


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Integrated Waste Management System Analysis Tool Hierarchy


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Used Nuclear Fuel Storage, Transportation, & Disposal Analysis Resource and Data System (UNF-ST&DARDS) Data and SNF characteristics

Transportation Storage and Logistics (TSL) & Next Generation System Analysis Model (NGSAM) Alternative configurations and concepts of operations

Stakeholder Tool for Assessing Radioactive Transportation (START) Identification of potential transportation routes

Execution Strategy Analysis (ESA) Alternative implementation strategies

Multi-Evaluation Objective Framework (MOEF) Assessing alternatives against objectives and stakeholder perspectives

Centralized Used Fuel Resource for Information Exchange (CURIE) Sharing data, analysis, and reports

Integrated Waste Management System Analysis Tool Hierarchy


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Consistent, Reliable Data is Maintained in UNF-ST&DARDS

The consistency, quality, and traceability of the information and data used by our system tools is paramount.

The Unified Database in UNF-ST&DARDS Provides for consolidation, collection, archival, and distribution of

traceable SNF data UNF-ST&DARDS (Used Nuclear Fuel Storage, Transportation, &

Disposal Analysis Resource and Data System) Builds the foundation for all future SNF and system analysis Enables SNF characterization Enables realistic safety margins


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UNF-ST&DARDS Performs the SNF Characterization that is Required by All Other Tools

Models Depletion:

Triton, ORIGEN

Thermal: COBRA-SFS

Criticality: KENO-VI

Dose

Containment

Fuel Performance

Assembly ID Assembly

type Initial

enrichment Discharge

burnup Cycle start

and end dates

Geometric configuration

Materials of construction

Design dimensions

Control components

Cycle specific burnup

Soluble boron

Rod insertion history

Batch loadings

Axial burnup profiles

Moderator temperature

Geometric configuration

Materials of construction

Design dimensions

Cask loading patterns

Component loading

859 dataAssembly data

Reactor dataCask data

Depletion How much and which

isotopes are in the SNF at a given time?

Shielding What are the dose rates in

storage and transportation configurations?

Criticality What are margins to

criticality? Thermal

What are the SNF components (e.g., cladding, basket, fuel) temperature?


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System Architecture Analysis is Used to Answer Many Important Questions

What are the strategies for removing SNF from the reactor sites? What are the transportation assets needed and facilities that must be

constructed for different alternatives? How much will it cost to

construct and operate? How would multiple ISFs

impact system performance metrics? Costs Transportation Etc.

Utilizes Transportation Storage and Logistics (TSL) & Next Generation System Analysis Model (NGSAM) tools June 7, 2016 UFD R&D Working Group Meeting

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Current Capabilities Provide Rough-Order-of-Magnitude Estimates of Costs, Materials, Asset Needs, etc.

The Transportation Storage Logistics (TSL) simulator models the following activities Assembly discharges Transfer of SNF to dry storage At-reactor and ISF pool capacity Canister/Cask loading Canister/Cask /Overpack thermal

limits Some ISF and repository

operational requirements Acceptance rates from reactors Allocation strategies (i.e., which

reactors go when)


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Improve Waste Management System Architecture Analysis Capabilities

A new tool, NGSAM, designed to simulate a broad range of scenarios to: Provide quantitative information about alternatives Evaluate at-reactor constraints on system performance Evaluate multiple ISFs with different operational profiles More accurately model system-wide impacts of:

Repository emplacements limits Transportation requirements Facility operational limitations

Current Capabilities Detailed at-reactor operations

benchmarking ongoing High-level modeling of the ISF, disposal

canister packaging, and repository Linked with Unified Database Platform/Operating System independent

Mac, Windows, Linux


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ESA Analyzes Alternative Implementation Strategies, Including the Impacts of Risks and Uncertainties

The ESA approach builds on traditional project management tools (i.e., Gantt Charts, WBS) and provides additional insight

Constraints Policy, legislation, regulatory

Explicitly models uncertainty and its impacts risks and opportunities

Allows for the assessment of alternative implementation scenarios

ESA improves understanding of the effects of uncertainty and the potential impacts of risks and opportunities


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Multi-Objective Evaluation Framework to Evaluate Alternatives in a Structured Manner

Nuclear waste management is a complex socio-technical problem

Multi-objective evaluation is based on the principles and methods of decision analysis Used in engineering, business, and

policy analysis

Objective is to apply a systematic methodology to evaluation alternatives for consideration by decision makers.

Loading standard transportation, aging, and disposal canisters

(STADs) at Reactor Sites Reactor Priority Perspective


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Data, Analyses, and Reports are Shared Using the CURIE Website

Advanced search functionality Public and private collaboration

environments Up-to-date, permissions-based

event calendar Image galleries Automated, live news feed Siting Experience Database

BRC near-term recommendation Map-based visualization of

reactor- and site-specific storage information


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Users Can Display UNF-ST&DARDS Data Using the Map Function on CURIE

The initial integration of CURIE and UNF-ST&DARDS provides user access and visualization of SNF data not otherwise available in a centralized location Visualization of numerous SNF data and reactor sites Data can be filtered by site, state, operating status, etc.


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Laying the Groundwork for Standardization

Furthering the quantitative assessment of relevant options to establish basis for future decision making Standardization at an ISF and alternative SNF

acceptance approaches Included representative repository concepts

Utilized industry contracts to obtain needed additional information Generic design for small size STAD canister system

(EnergySolutions) Investigated operational aspects for implementation

of STAD canister systems at operating reactors (EnergySolutions)

Developed a Standardized Transportation, Aging, and Disposal (STAD) canister specification and specification rationale to support system studies and potential research, development, and demonstration activities

Comparison of ROM system cost of different initial canister loading strategies and disposal in small (4 PWR)

canisters


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Questions & Discussion


Overview of DOE-NEs Nuclear Fuels Storage and Transportation Planning Project (NFST)Joe CarterStorage Control Account Manager of the DOE-NEsNuclear Fuels Storage and Transportation Planning Project(Savannah River National Laboratory)UFD R&D Working Group MeetingJune 7, 2016Las Vegas, NVDOE-NEs NFST Program is Planning for Interim Storage and Transportation as Part of an Integrated Waste Management SystemStrategy for the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste Guides NFSTs ActivitiesNear-Term Objectives to Lay the Groundwork for Strategy ImplementationDOE-NEs NFST Program is Organized into Four Key ElementsSupporting the Development of a Publicly Accepted Consent-Based Siting Process Supporting the Development of a Publicly Accepted Consent-Based Siting Process Laying the Groundwork for Consolidated Interim StorageDry Storage Design Concepts for Consolidated Interim Storage (Flexible, Adaptable, and Expandable)Developing the Large-Scale Transportation SystemPotential Transportation Routes Generated by STARTDeveloping the Large-Scale Transportation SystemIntegrated Waste Management System Analysis Tool HierarchyIntegrated Waste Management System Analysis Tool HierarchyConsistent, Reliable Data is Maintained in UNF-ST&DARDSUNF-ST&DARDS Performs the SNF Characterization that is Required by All Other ToolsSystem Architecture Analysis is Used to Answer Many Important QuestionsCurrent Capabilities Provide Rough-Order-of-Magnitude Estimates of Costs, Materials, Asset Needs, etc.Improve Waste Management System Architecture Analysis CapabilitiesESA Analyzes Alternative Implementation Strategies, Including the Impacts of Risks and UncertaintiesMulti-Objective Evaluation Framework to Evaluate Alternatives in a Structured MannerData, Analyses, and Reports are Shared Using the CURIE WebsiteUsers Can Display UNF-ST&DARDS Data Using the Map Function on CURIELaying the Groundwork for Standardization Questions & Discussion

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