DEVELOPPEMENT DES CONTENEURS DE TRANSPORT ET DE STOCKAGE POUR LES ELEMENTS COMBUSTIBLES ET LES BARRES D'ABSORPTION DU RNR SUPER-PHENIX

Year
1986
Author(s)
H. Michoux - Centrale nucléaire européenne a neutrons rapides SA (NERSA)
J. Hoefnagels - Centrale nucléaire européenne a neutrons rapides SA (NERSA)
R. Hüggenberg - Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service mbH, Essen, Germany
K. Janberg - Gesellschaft fur Nuklear-Service mbH, Germany
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Abstract
The Super-Phenix I fast reactor, with an output of 1200 MW(e), began commercial operation in 1985. Because adequate reprocessing capacity is sti!J not available, the operator, the Nersa Company, decided to install a storage pond on the Creys-Malvi!Je site for the fuel elements, providing a buffer capacity for several years. However, these fuel elements will have to be removed from the site at some future date, and Nersa has accordingly decided to promote the development of appropriate transport containers which could at the same time, if required, serve as temporary on-site storage containers. To this end, Nersa in 1981 approached theGNS Company, which had already developed containers of this kind for light water reactor fuel elements in the Federal Republic of Germany.