Environmental and Technical Considerations during the Decommissioning and Recycling of Spent Fuel Transport Flasks

For more than 30 years, BNFL has been designing, building, operating and maintaining transport flasks for the purpose of transporting spent fuel between nuclear power plants and reprocessing facilities. The task of decommissioning these redundant transport flasks has now started, thus completing the last link in a flask´s life cycle. The aim is to decommission the transport flasks using a mixture of standard and state-of-the-art techniques, which allows for a flask´s full decontamination (ALARA) and recycling whilst helping to keep decommissioning costs to a minimum.