This paper describes a number of scenarios estimating the amount of spent nuclear fuel that could be transported to a Monitored Retrievable Storage (MRS) Facility by various combinations of existing cask fleets. To develop the scenarios, the data provided by the Transportation System Data Base (TSDB) were modified to reflect the additional time for cask turnaround resulting from various startup and transportation issues. With these more realistic speed and cask-handling assumptions, the annual transportation capability of a fleet consisting of all of the existing casks is approximately 46 metric tons of uranium (MTU). The most likely fleet of existing casks that would be made available to the Department of Energy (DOE) consists of two rail, three overweight truck, and six legal weight truck casks. Under the same transportation assumptions, this cask fleet is capable of approximately transporting 270 MTU/year. These ranges of capability is a result of the assumptions pertaining to the number of casks assumed to be available. It should be noted that this assessment assumes additional casks based on existing certifications are not fabricated. 5 refs., 4 tabs.
Transportation capabilities of the existing cask fleet
1991
18 pages
Report
No indication
English
Radioactive Wastes & Radioactivity , Radiation Shielding, Protection, & Safety , Spent Fuel Casks , Spent Fuels , Waste Transportation , C Codes , Inventories , Land Transport , Monitored Retrievable Storage , Simulation , Spent Fuel Storage , Uranium , Meetings , Radioactive waste management , EDB/050900 , EDB/420204
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