W16 Near-Term Issues Related to Spent Fuel Pools
This session will cover three activities related to spent fuel pools:
NRC Near-Term Task Force Recommendation 7.1 and associated orders as they address instrumentation for spent fuel pools at U.S. nuclear facilities.
A spent fuel pool scoping study currently underway is reexamining the potential advantages associated with moving older fuel stored in the spent fuel pool to dry cask storage in an expedited manner.
Zirconium fire experiments involving spent fuel pool complete loss-of-coolant-accident scenarios are being conducted to provide basic thermal-hydraulic data for the validation of severe accident codes (primarily MELCOR) and to reduce modeling uncertainties within the code.
The panel will consist of both NRC and industry representatives, who will present their perspectives on these activities for spent fuel pools at U.S. facilities.
SESSION CHAIR:
Richard Lee, Branch Chief, Division of Systems Analysis, NRC/RES
SPEAKERS/PANELISTS:
- Status of Spent Fuel Pool Scoping Study
Hossein Esmaili, Sr. Reactor Systems Engineer, Division of Systems Analysis, NRC/RES and
Donald Helton, Sr. Reliability and Risk Engineer, Division of Risk Analysis, NRC/RES - Investigations of Zirconium Fires during Spent Fuel Pool LOCAs
Abdelghani Zigh, Sr. Technical Advisor, Division of Systems Analysis, NRC/RES - Spent Fuel Pool Lessons Learned
Richard Laura, Senior Project Manager, Japan Lessons Learned Project Directorate, NRC/NRR - Enhanced Spent Fuel Pool Instrumentation - Industry Views
Steven Kraft, Sr. Director, Fukushima Regulatory Response, Nuclear Energy Institute
SESSION COORDINATOR(S):
Katie Wagner, General Engineer, Division of Systems Analysis, NRC/RES, tel: 301-251-7917, e-mail: Katie.Wagner@nrc.gov
Barry Miller, Sr. Project Manager, Division of Policy and Rulemaking, NRC/NRR, tel: 301-415-4117, e-mail: Barry.Miller@nrc.gov
