Posted on May 25, 2021
US Navy says it met Idaho deadline on spent nuclear fuel
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The U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program said Monday it has completed putting into dry storage all the spent fuel that was in water pool storage before Jan. 1, 2017. The project was finished 18 months ahead of a required schedule in a 2008 agreement with Idaho.
The agreement was an addendum to a much broader 1995 pact that Idaho reached with the U.S. Department of Energy following a series of lawsuits. The 1995 agreement is widely seen as preventing Idaho from becoming a nuclear waste dump.
The spent fuel processed by the Navy comes from ships, submarines and prototype reactor sites. Since 1957, the Navy has sent the fuel to its Naval Reactors Facility located at the Energy Department’s 890-square-mile (2,305-square-kilometer) site west of Idaho Falls.
The Energy Department site also includes the Idaho National Laboratory, a leading nuclear research lab.
The agreement was an addendum to a much broader 1995 pact that Idaho reached with the U.S. Department of Energy following a series of lawsuits. The 1995 agreement is widely seen as preventing Idaho from becoming a nuclear waste dump.
The spent fuel processed by the Navy comes from ships, submarines and prototype reactor sites. Since 1957, the Navy has sent the fuel to its Naval Reactors Facility located at the Energy Department’s 890-square-mile (2,305-square-kilometer) site west of Idaho Falls.
The Energy Department site also includes the Idaho National Laboratory, a leading nuclear research lab.
US Navy says it met Idaho deadline on spent nuclear fuel
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel "The spent fuel is cooled in water before being placed in special canisters and concrete “overpacks,” then stored in buildings at the site.
“The effort to meet this milestone was monumental,” Adm.l J.F. Caldwell Jr., director of the Naval Reactors Facility, said in a statement.
The 2008 addendum allows the Navy to continue to process and temporarily store spent nuclear fuel at the site past a 2035 deadline as originally spelled out in the 1995 agreement. But it also requires the spent fuel to be stored safely in Idaho and ultimately removed from the state."
“The effort to meet this milestone was monumental,” Adm.l J.F. Caldwell Jr., director of the Naval Reactors Facility, said in a statement.
The 2008 addendum allows the Navy to continue to process and temporarily store spent nuclear fuel at the site past a 2035 deadline as originally spelled out in the 1995 agreement. But it also requires the spent fuel to be stored safely in Idaho and ultimately removed from the state."
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