Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Public Report (2006) / Chapter Skim
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1.4.4 History of Spent Fuel Storage Spent fuel pools at commercial nuclear power plants were not designed to accommodate all the fuel used during the operating lifetime of the reactors they service. Most commercial power plants were designed with small pools under the assumption that fuel would be cooled for a short period of time after discharge from the reactor and then be sent offsite for recycling (i.e., reprocessing)
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The G.E.Morris ISFSI is a wet storage facility. SOURCES: Data from the USNRC (2004)
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Please use the INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 23 FIGURE 1.4 Projection of the number of commercial nuclear power plants that will run out of needed space in their spent fuel pools in coming years if they do not add interim storage. These data, looking only at plants that did not already use dry cask storage, were provided to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2000.
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Please use the INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 24 Several nuclear utilities have already submitted license applications to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build 16 new ISFSIs, Among the potential new ISFSIs, a consortium of utilities has submitted a license for a private fuel storage facility (PFS) in Utah for interim dry storage of up to 40,000 metric tons of spent fuel.
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