Experience With Failed or Damaged Spent Fuel and Its Impacts on Handling

Spent fuel management planning needs to include consideration of failed or damaged spent light-water reactor fuel. Described in this paper are the following: the importance of fuel integrity and the behavior of failed fuel, the quantity and burnup of failed or damaged fuel in storage, types of defects, difficulties in evaluating data on failed or damaged fuel, experience with wet storage, experience with dry storage, handling of failed or damaged fuel, transporting of fuel, and experience with higher burnup fuel.