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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
Frederic C. Scofield, Rocco A. Fazzolare
Nuclear Technology | Volume 20 | Number 3 | December 1973 | Pages 140-148
Technical Paper | Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT73-A31353
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In an arid climate, the consumptive use of water by a steam power plant may place a constraint on the plant size and location, and may affect the choice of nuclear or fossil fuel. To estimate the water consumption resulting from the use of recirculating evaporative cooling systems, mathematical models of a cooling tower, cooling pond, and cooling pond with a supplemental spray system were developed, based on meteorological phenomena. The monthly and annual evaporation was then computed using climatological data. The use of a spray system to reduce the required cooling pond surface area is found to be feasible and effective in reducing the evaporation resulting from cooling pond operation.