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Update on the United States Department of Energy's Used Fuel Disposition R&D Campaign

15th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference 2015, IHLRWM 2015

Swift, Peter N.; Birkholzer, Jens T.; Bragg-Sitton, Shannon; MacKinnon, R.J.; McMahon, Kevin A.; Saltzstein, Sylvia J.; Sorenson, Ken B.

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is conducting research and development (R&D) activities within the Used Fuel Disposition Campaign to support the implementation of the DOE's 2013 Strategy for the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste. R&D activities focus on storage, transportation, and disposal of used nuclear fuel (UNF) and wastes generated by existing and future nuclear fuel cycles and are ongoing at nine national laboratories. Additional relevant R&D is conducted at multiple universities through the DOE's Nuclear Energy University Program. Within the storage and transportation areas, R&D continues to focus on technical gaps related to extended storage and subsequent transportation of UNF. Primary emphasis for FY15 is on experimental and analysis activities that support the DOE s dry cask demonstration confirmatory data project initiated at the North Anna Nuclear Power Plant in Virginia by the Electric Power Research Institute in collaboration with AREVA and Dominion Power. Within the disposal research area, current planning calls for a significant increase in R&D associated with evaluating the feasibility of deep borehole disposal of some waste forms, in addition to a continued emphasis on confirming the viability of generic mined disposal concepts in multiple geologic media. International collaborations that allow the U.S. program to benefit from experience and opportunities for research in other nations remain a high priority.

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System Dynamics Modeling of the Colorado Basin for Optimizing Operations Reducing Risk and Increasing Resiliency

Lowry, Thomas S.; Kobos, Peter H.; Malczynski, Leonard A.; Tidwell, Vincent C.; Roach, Jesse D.; McMahon, Kevin A.

This paper is the output from SNL's involvement in the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), the Colorado River Energy Distributors Association (CREDA), and the Upper Colo rado River Commission's (UCRC) sponsored Phase II work to establish market and non - market valu es (NMV's) of water and hydropower asso ciated with Glen Canyon Dam (GCD) operations and the Colorado River ecosystem. It describes the purpose and need to develop a systems model for the Colorado River Basin that includes valuations in the economic, hydrologic, environmental, social, and cultural sectors . It outlines the benefits and unique features associated with such a model and provides a roadmap of how a syste ms model would be developed and implemented. While not meant to serve as a full development plan, the ideas and concepts herein represent what the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) research team believes is the most impac tful and effective path forward to address an ever increasing complex set of problems that occur at the basin - scale and beyond .

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2014
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Update of the Used Fuel Dispositon Campaign Implementation Plan

McMahon, Kevin A.; Bragg-Sitton, Shannon B.; MacKinnon, R.J.; Saltzstein, Sylvia J.; Sorenson, Ken B.; Swift, Peter N.; Birkholzer, Jens T.

This Update to the Used Fuel Disposition Campaign Implementation Plan provides summary level detail describing how the Used Fuel Disposition Campaign (UFDC) supports achievement of the overarching mission and objectives of the Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy Fuel Cycle Technologies Program, building on work completed in this area since 2009. This implementation plan begins with the assumption of target dates that are set out in the January 2013 DOE Strategy for the Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste (http://energy.gov/downloads/strategy-management-and-disposal-used-nuclearfuel- and-high-level-radioactive-waste). These target dates and goals are summarized in section III. This implementation plan will be maintained as a living document and will be updated as needed in response to available funding and progress in the Used Fuel Disposition Campaign and the Fuel Cycle Technologies Program.

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