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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.
Manfred Sappok
Nuclear Technology | Volume 86 | Number 2 | August 1989 | Pages 188-191
Technical Paper | Decontamination and Decommissioning / Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34269
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A method is developed for treating contaminated metallic waste from nuclear facilities by melting. The goal is to reduce the volume of scrap to be stored in the final depository because of the high costs of storage. It is possible to recycle the material by using it to produce components to be used in nuclear facilities, especially for shielding purposes. Products include shielding blocks, shielding doors, and type A and B containers for transport and storage of radioactive waste. This method had to meet safety requirements to be licensed by the appropriate authorities. The license was granted in 1985 and ∼1500 t of material has been processed.