EIS Cumulative

EIS Cumulative
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1997
Genre: Environmental impact analysis
ISBN:

Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1999

Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1999
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1258
Release: 1998
Genre: Energy development
ISBN:

Decommissioned Submarines in the Russian Northwest

Decommissioned Submarines in the Russian Northwest
Author: E.J. Kirk
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401156182

Until the late 1970s, most commercial power plant operators outside the United States adopted a spent fuel management policy of immediate reprocessing and recycling of recovered products. In response to rising reprocessing prices, decreasing values of re covered products, concerns over proliferation risks, and a belief in the favorable eco nomics of direct disposal, many utilities have since opted to store spent fuel on an in terim basis pending the availability of direct disposal facilities or a change in the eco nomic and/or political climate for reprocessing and recycling uranium and plutonium. Spent fuel has traditionally been stored in water-filled pools located in the reactor building or fuel handling buildings, on reactor sites, or as part of large centralized fa cilities (e.g. Sellafield, La Hague, CLAB). Because the economics of pool storage are dependent on the size of the facility, the construction of additional separate pools on reactor sites has only been pursued in a few countries, such as Finland and Bulgaria.