Safety and Engineering Aspects of Spent Fuel Storage Proceedings of an International Symposi... Book

	Overview of spent fuel management	3
	Dry storage of spent fuel in Argentina: Prospects and technical solutions	15
	Spent fuel management in Belgium	29
	Canadian spent fuel storage experience	41
	Design, planning and siting of spent fuel storage facilities in India	57
	Storage facility for BWR spent fuel using casks in Japan	71
	Status of the spent fuel management programme in the Republic of Korea	83
	Main options for the Romanian spent fuel storage programme	93
	Slovak experience with WWER-440 spent fuel storage	103
	Development of dual purpose (storage and transport) metal casks in Spain	113
	Swedish spent fuel storage programme	121
	Spent fuel management and storage in the United States of America	135
	The multipurpose canister project	145
	The IAEA Co-ordinated Research Programme on the Behaviour of Spent Fuel and Storage Facility Components During Long Term Storage	157
	Experience from the operation of the Swedish Central Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel, CLAB	167
	A light water reactor spent fuel receiving and storage facility under construction in China	177
	Spent fuel management at the Tsuruga and Tokai-2 power stations	183
	Corrosion testing of construction materials of spent WWER-440 fuel	193
	Spent fuel storage experience at La Hague	201
	Experience of the Societe generale pour les techniques nouvelles in dry vault storage for spent fuel and high level wastes	209
	Selection of a spent fuel removal system for THORP as part of the overall spent fuel storage philosophy adopted by British Nuclear Fuels plc	219
	Evolution of the MACSTOR dry spent fuel storage system	247
	Forged steel casks for the safe and economic storage of irradiated fuel	259
	Evaluation of the maximum allowable temperature of WWER-1000 spent fuel under dry storage conditions	269
	The first multipurpose spent fuel container reviewed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission	281
	Development of advanced spent fuel storage technology at reactor	295
	Dry spent fuel storage in Germany: Status in 1994 and prospects	307
	Early spent fuel encapsulation for decoupling fuel assembly operation requirements and long term dry storage	321
	Licensing of spent fuel storage in Bulgaria: Regulations and problems	331
	Licensing of a spent fuel storage facility, including its physical protection, in the Czech Republic	337
	Experience with regulatory licensing of spent fuel interim stores: Licence to increase the interim storage capacity of the reprocessing plant ponds at La Hague	347
	Dry interim spent fuel storage casks: Licensing, evaluation and operational experience	355
	Set of criteria for licensing procedures	369
	Safety analysis practices for the dense storage of RBMK spent fuel and improved technology for the long term storage of spent fuel in water pools	377
	Licensing process for independent spent fuel storage facilities in Ukraine	389
	Summary of the Symposium	395
	Characterization of the fuel cladding interface for intermediate and final storage of spent fuel	401
	Search for defective fuel assemblies after prolonged storage of spent matrix type fuel	403
	Study on changes in radiological conditions after introduction of high density racks in the Angra 2 spent fuel pool	405
	Study of an intermediate spent fuel storage facility at the Krsko nuclear power plant site	409
	Skoda's experience with spent fuel storage	411
	New developments in dry storage casks for spent fuel from RBMK and WWER reactors	413
	Interim dry vault storage system for spent fuel	415
	Evaluation of heat removal system by natural convection in spent fuel dry storage facilities	418
	Development of heavy concrete with depleted uranium	422
	Feasibility study of a horizontal dry storage system with overpack	424
	Use of tanks equipped with passive systems for residual heat release into the environment to store spent fuel assemblies: Special sites for nuclear power stations	427
	An experimental and computational analysis programme for radiation source characterization of MOX and high burnup UOX spent fuel	429
	Concept of long term safe storage of leaking RBMK spent fuel in a metal matrix	432
	Chairmen of Sessions and Secretariat of the Symposium	435
	List of Participants	437
	Author Index	449
	Index of Papers and Posters by Number	451