Sentences with phrase «dry cask»

While the senator did not comment on a long - term waste management effort, his spokesperson noted that in May 2017, Markey sponsored the Dry Cask Storage Act, a bill that would essentially allow the NRC to give nuclear generators grants from interest earned from the Nuclear Waste Fund to transfer SNF from pools to dry storage under NRC - approved plans.

Another consideration, as Rita Sipe, manager of Duke Energy's Nuclear Fleet Communications, in February told POWER, is that used fuel pools and dry cask storage sites, which Duke has located at five of the company's six operating nuclear plants, require operations and maintenance (see sidebar, «The Dry Cask Boom»).

Annually, Entergy will be responsible for moving a set number of spent fuel rods from its dangerous storage pools to dry cask storage on site - a much safer technology for storing radioactive material.

Our last update reported that the first canister was loaded with spent fuel for dry cask storage in January 2018.

The current nuclear waste that we have sitting at the bottom of spent fuel pools and in dry cask storage would be more than enough to fuel the first reactors.

They have also developed dry cask storage.

Our facility is designed for ease of spent fuel transfer to a dry cask storage system.

Dry cask storage is widely used in many countries, but Japan currently has it at only a few nuclear sites.

Fuel units must be stored initially in pools at reactor sites for about five years, until the decay heat drops enough to permit movement into dry cask containers.

As a general clarification, ounce for ounce, coal ash released from a power plant delivers more radiation than nuclear waste shielded via water or dry cask storage.

Entergy will also move a set yearly number of spent fuel rods from their dangerous storage pools to dry cask storage on site — a much safer solution for this radioactive material.

There are about 1,300 dry casks at 55 sites nationwide; however, most of the radioactive waste generated in the United States sits in cooling pools similar to Japan's.

The waste, hot from radioactive decay, is held in deep pools of water or in «dry casks» of concrete and steel that sit on reinforced pads.

In the interim, more spent fuel should be moved from cooling pools to dry casks, which offer better protection against hazards.

The NRC analysis found that a fire in a spent - fuel pool at an average nuclear reactor site would cause $ 125 billion in damages, while expedited transfer of spent fuel to dry casks could reduce radioactive releases from pool fires by 99 percent.

This problem continues to grow because there remains no place for used nuclear fuel rod storage other than such pools or massive dry casks — both located on nuclear facility grounds.

That means large quantities of nuclear waste will remain at nuclear plants for a long, long time — and three quarters of it is currently crammed in cooling pools rather than stored in dry casks, which are safer.»

On September 15, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission affirmed its expert opinion that spent nuclear fuel could be safely stored on nuclear power plant grounds — whether in pools or dry casks — for «at least 60 years beyond the licensed life of any reactor.»

A wholesale transfer to dry casks at U.S. plants would cost roughly $ 4 billion.

Spent fuel can be shifted to concrete containers called dry casks as soon as it cools sufficiently, and the academy panel recommends that NRC «assess the risks and potential benefits of expedited transfer.»

Many plants around the country have maxed out temporary storage in their spent - fuel pools, forcing them to put waste into huge, dry casks.

Currently, used fuel is safely stored in pools of water or in dry casks at the nuclear plant site.

The fuel engineering in ENUSA covers all technical aspects of the lifetime of the nuclear fuel, from conceptual development and introduction of new products for irradiation in commercial PWR and BWR reactors to fuel storage and transport in dry casks as irradiated fuel.

The active reactors, Indian Point 2 and 3, were humming away on Thursday, and a new feature is an open - air pad where spent fuel taken from crowding cooling pools is increasingly being stored in «dry casks» — super rugged containers that no engineer has yet figured out how to breach.

Our recommendations include better enforcement of existing regulations, expedited transfer of nuclear waste into dry casks, strengthened reactor security requirements, and higher safety standards for new plants.

After the Obama administration effectively paralyzed the much - delayed Yucca Mountain project in 2009, the NRC studied and determined in 2014 that spent fuel could be safely stored for up to 60 years in spent fuel pools and indefinitely in dry casks — assuming the casks could be replaced once every 100 years and that utilities could implement aging management programs to maintain cask safety.

Not exact matches

(Those casks are made of Spanish oak then seasoned for 18 months with dry Oloroso sherry, then shipped up to Scotland, where they're filled with Macallan's whisky.

The 1995 expression, finished in Oloroso sherry casks has, according to the distillery, flavours of heavy dried fruits, rich sherry, honeyed oak spice and dark chocolate.

The role of the cask Bourbon barrels contribute vanilla, honey, fruit and spices, with a light, dry sweetness.

Sherry casks add richer sweetness with vanilla and dried fruit notes including raisins and prunes.

But it is actually quite common for cask beers to be filtered using isinglass, a gelatinlike substance derived from the dried swim bladders of fish that is used to separate out unwanted solids like yeast particles from a brew, the company said.

Revered for mastery of Spanish oak sherry cask maturation, The GlenDronach is synonymous with depth of cask colour and richness of taste, whether influenced by the sweet dark fruits of Pedro Ximenez or the dry nuttiness of Oloroso sherry.

Ferdinand's Dry Saar Vermouth: Slate Riesling Ferdinand's White Saar Vermouth: Barrel Aged in Mosel Fuder Oak Casks 18 % alc / vol

The distilled brandy is cellared in air - dried Limousin oak casks where it is aged.

One was a measure prohibiting plant owners from densely packing spent - fuel pools, requiring them to expedite transfer of all spent fuel that has cooled in pools for at least five years to dry storage casks, which are inherently safer.

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The NAC - LWT cask is a very flexible cask, which can be loaded wet in a pool, or dry in hot cell facilities or facilities with small pools and limited crane capacities.

Nuclear plant fuel managers; dry fuel storage project managers; used fuel cask designers; utility licensing and compliance personnel; used fuel storage, transportation, decommissioning and disposal consultants; NDE vendors; architect engineers; pool - to - pad services companies; hardware suppliers; government agency managers, technical experts, contractors, stakeholders and international experts responsible for used nuclear fuel management and decommissioning issues.

When using a DTS loading approach, NAC first prepares the shipping cask for receiving fuel canisters by dry transfer.