Sentences with phrase «on spent fuel storage»

But it makes no related policy recommendations, saying the Japanese disaster only strengthens the report's call for more research on spent fuel storage.

Not exact matches

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.

«The entire spent fuel management system — on - site storage, consolidated long - term storage, geological disposal — is likely to be reevaluated in a new light because of the Fukushima storage pool experience,» the report says.

What is the alternative to on - site spent fuel storage?

The nuclear spent fuel produced during 14 years of operation at Rancho Seco was kept cool in a water pool on site and is now in protective dry storage.

DENVER — Along the way to testing an old - but - new concept in nuclear waste storage — burying spent fuel in a hole drilled kilometers below the surface — the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its contractors relearned a lesson that seems frequently forgotten: Get the locals on board first.

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, which Feinstein chairs and Alexander serves as the top Republican, may again include a mandate for DOE to designate a high level waste / spent nuclear fuel storage site, as they did in the 2012 bill that the last Congress did not pass.

For almost 25 years, there was little attention on WIPP as an alternative consolidated storage or disposal site, because Yucca Mountain was the preferred repository for spent fuel and high - level waste.

A recent NRC report purports to show that the risks of continued spent fuel storage in pools is very low, but does not, for example, include the possibility of a terrorist attack on the pool.

In fact Utilities operating nuclear plants have managed to come up with design solutions to greatly increase the storage capacity of the on site facilities — due to the failure of the federal government to meet their legal obligation under US law to provide a repository for spent fuel.

France and Japan, on the other hand, routinely extract and reprocess plutonium for reuse as reactor fuel, but the dual - use potential of this process has led Holdren and his coauthors to recommend a «once - through fuel cycle» in which the spent fuel is not reprocessed, but instead goes directly into a storage repository.

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.