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Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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Supreme Court rules against Texas in interim storage case
The Supreme Court voted 6–3 against Texas and a group of landowners today in a case involving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing of a consolidated interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, reversing a decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to grant the state and landowners Fasken Land and Minerals (Fasken) standing to challenge the license.
Noriaki Takahashi, Hideaki Morishita, Naomichi Kanegae, Akihiro Niimi
Nuclear Technology | Volume 86 | Number 1 | July 1989 | Pages 7-16
Technical Paper | Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A34275
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
To reduce the cost of fast breeder reactor plants, advanced subsystem concepts are studied. The material quantities of the fuel handling system constituent subsystems are estimated and those with the largest quantities are selected for improvement. The advanced subsystem concepts studied include in-vessel fuel storage while cooling, an in-vessel fuel transfer machine with variable-reach arm, and a halfswing hinged-track fuel transfer machine. A significant reduction of overall system material quantity is promised by a suitable combination of the proposed advanced concepts.
