Over the past several years, planning associated with the National Waste Terminal Storage (NWTS) program assumed the use of one or two large, centrally located repository facilities. Recently, an alternative approach has been proposed which consists of the use of multiple, smaller regional repositories. In this report, several regional concepts were studied and the transportation requirements for the shipment of spent fuel to the regional repositories were estimated. In general, the transportation requirements decrease as the number of repositories increase. However, as far as transportation is concerned, the point of diminishing returns is reached at approximately one repository in each of three to four regions. Additional savings beyond this point are small. A series of sensitivity studies is also included to demonstrate the impact on the total transportation requirements of varying cask capacity, rail speed, or truck speed. Since most of the projected fuel shipments are to be made by rail, varying the capacity of the rail cask or varying average rail transport speed will have a major effect on overall transportation requirements. (ERA citation 05:026962)
Transportation Analysis for the Concept of Regional Repositories
1980
84 pages
Report
No indication
English
Reactor Engineering & Nuclear Power Plants , Selected Studies In Nuclear Technology , Transportation , Radioactive waste facilities , Spent fuels , Waste transportation , Away-from-reactor storage , Capacity , Casks , Comparative evaluations , Cost , Land transport , Planning , Radioactive wastes , Rail transport , Regional analysis , Spent fuel storage , Transport , Trucks , ERDA/050900 , ERDA/052002
Regional Concept for Transportation Operations
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