A PERSONAL COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF PROPOSED CASK DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS*

Shipments of spent fuel to the Monitored Retrievable Storage (MRS) facility may be minimized by developing a new generation of truck and rail casks. Specifications for such casks are now being prepared. While such specifications must be consistent with long-term economic, logistical and operational goals, they must not be overly restrictive. A new interactive program called CAPSIZE has therefore been written for the IBM-PC to rapidly determine the likely impact that proposed criteria might have on the size and capacity of casks designed to meet those criteria.