Sentences with phrase «spent fuel storage facilities»
Essentially, it foresaw a pilot interim spent fuel storage facility opened by 2021, a larger - scale storage facility (possibly an expansion of the pilot) by 2025, and a geologic disposal facility by 2048 — 50 years after the initial planned opening of Yucca Mountain.
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It also said the State of Bavaria, rather than the federal government, should pick up the hefty tab for building a storage facility to dispose of spent fuel.
The report calls for a long - term spent fuel U.S. repository but says the country can get by for the short term with interim storage of fuel rods at plants or other facilities.
It notes that a storage facility that could hold spent fuel for several decades while it cools could free up space in reactors» pools, lowering the risk of overheating, loss of coolant, and fires.
The project involved developing the systems to remove 2,300 metric tons of deteriorating spent nuclear fuel from the water - filled basins near the Columbia River and transporting the fuel to a dry storage facility near the center of the Hanford site.
Our facility is designed for ease of spent fuel transfer to a dry cask storage system.
In 2013, Congress likely will consider nuclear waste legislation for a new spent nuclear fuels storage facility and perhaps more comprehensive nuclear waste legislation.
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.
That would be 10 TIMES DEEPER than the proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Storage Facility for spent radioactive fuel rods.