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DOE on track to deliver high-burnup SNF to Idaho by 2027
The Department of Energy said it anticipated delivering a research cask of high-burnup spent nuclear fuel from Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia to Idaho National Laboratory by fall 2027. The planned shipment is part of the High Burnup Dry Storage Research Project being conducted by the DOE with the Electric Power Research Institute.
As preparations continue, the DOE said it is working closely with federal agencies as well as tribal and state governments along potential transportation routes to ensure safety, transparency, and readiness every step of the way.
Watch the DOE’s latest video outlining the project here.
Ki-Yong Ra, Byong-Whi Lee, Soon-Heung Chang
Nuclear Technology | Volume 101 | Number 2 | February 1993 | Pages 149-158
Technical Paper | Nuclear Reactor Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT93-A34776
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With most of the current probabilistic safety criteria (PSCs), it is difficult to select a unanimously acceptable single-point safety goal and to evaluate the uncertainties in the results of a probabilistic safety assessment (PSA). A new PSC is proposed, in which the distribution of the public’s safety goals (DPSG) is used as a benchmark for evaluating the results of a PSA rather than a single-point safety goal. With this approach, the DPSG and the uncertainties in the results of a PSA can be handled properly so as to give a clear answer of “how much of the public feels a nuclear reactor is safe” to the question of “How safe is safe enough?” The proposed PSC is compared with the current PSCs and the expected utility model. If the actual DPSG is unavailable or difficult to obtain directly, a lognormal distribution is recommended as an appropriate DPSG for core melt frequencies in terms of maximizing entropy and minimizing total social cost. The proposed DPSG and PSC for core melt frequency are applied to the results of NUREG-1150.