Ten Thousand Movements of Irradiated Fuel from CEGB Power Stations-Review of Recent Experience

Transport of irradiated (spent) fuel is an important part of the services needed to support generation from the CEGB's nuclear power stations. There is a total of 26 gas-cooled reactors at ten locations, with a total capacity of over 9,000 MWe. Most of the movements involve the despatch of irradiated fuel for storage and reprocessing at British Nuclear Fuel's (BNFL) plant at Sellafield but small numbers of irradiated fuel movements are also required to research laboratories for post-irradiation examination.