DEMONSTRATION OF CASK TRANSPORTATION AND DRY STORAGE OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL

Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. and the Department of Energy's Idaho Operations Office have signed a cost sharing contract to demonstrate dual purpose shipping and storage casks for spent nuclear fuel. Transnuclear, Inc. has been selected by NFS to design and supply two forged steel casks - one for 40 PWR assemblies from the Ginna reactor, the other for 85 BWR assemblies from the Big Rock Point reactor. The casks w i l l be delivered to West Valley in mid-1985, loaded with the fuel assemblies and shipped by rail to the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. The shipments w i l l be made under a DOE Certificate of Compliance which w i l l be issued based on reviews by Oak Ridge National Laboratory of Transnuclear's designs.