Feature and role of Metal Cask Handling Equipment in the Interim Storage Facility for Spent Fuels

Year
2016
Author(s)
M. Shiratani - Kobe Steel Ltd.
Masamitsu Nakatani - Kobe Steel Ltd
File Attachment
F5023.pdf708.19 KB
Abstract
Recyclable Fuel Storage Center is the first spent fuel interim storage facility at far from reactor site in Japan. This facility adopts dry storage metal casks. This facility is operated by RFS (Recyclable Fuel Storage Company). The storage capacity of this facility is up to 288 metal casks (3000ton-U). These spent fuels will be stored for up to 50years and sent to the reprocessing plant. Kobe Steel supplied handling equipment for this facility. In this paper, the feature and the role of the handling equipment are explained.