At present 5,900 tons of high - level waste (HLW) in the form of spent fuel assemblies are sitting in pools next to operating reactors, together with 75 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste, plus 27 million cubic feet of trans - uranic waste (TRU). (religion-online.org)
Under the Foreign Research Reactor (FRR) program, NAC received a contract from the European Commission to remove a total of 420 HEU spent fuel assemblies from the Dutch Petten reactor located north of Amsterdam using two campaigns of five NAC - LWT casks. (nacintl.com)
The spent fuel pool provides storage space for up to 15 years of accumulated spent fuel assemblies, plus temporary storage for new fuel assemblies. (nuscalepower.com)