After removal from the reactor core, spent
fuel assemblies are placed in dedicated spent
fuel storage racks in the below ground spent
fuel pool, which contains four times more water volume for cooling per
fuel assembly than current designs.
After conversion of the university reactor at Texas A&M to Low Enriched Uranium (LEU)
fuel, NAC provided one NAC - LWT cask for the transport of 84 irradiated High Enriched Uranium (HEU) TRIGA type
fuel assemblies to the DOE site of Idaho National Laboratory (INL).