Spent nuclear fuel definition
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Spent nuclear fuel may remain in wet storage for up to 6 a decade or longer before being reprocessed or converted to long-term dry storage configurations.
Spent nuclear fuel from ATR is stored in the ATR canal prior to transfer to wet storage at INL’s CPP-603 facility, while spent nuclear fuel from HFIR is stored in storage racks within the HFIR pool outside the core zone awaiting shipment to Savannah River Site.
Spent nuclear fuel is defined in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) of 1982 and the NWPA Amendments of 1987 as “ fuel that has been withdrawn from a nuclear reactor following irradiation, the constituent elements of which have not been separated by reprocessing.” This standard requires that waste in disposable canisters shall meet the legal definition of SNF.