Impacts Analyses Supporting the National Environmental Policy Act Environmental Assessment for the Resumption of Transient Testing Program

Annette L. Schafer ; Lloyd C. Brown ; David C. Carathers ; Boyd D. Christensen ; James J. Dahl ; Mark L. Miller ; Cathy Ottinger Farnum ; Steven Peterson ; A. Jeffrey Sondrup ; Peter V. Subaiya ; Daniel M. Wachs ; Ruth F. Weiner

关键词: environmental assessment;    impacts analyses;    NEPA;    TREAT;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1110329
RP-ID  :  INL/EXT-13-29397
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1110329

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Environmental and health impacts are presented for activities associated with transient testing of nuclear fuel and material using two candidate test reactors. Transient testing involves irradiation of nuclear fuel or materials for short time-periods under high neutron flux rates. The transient testing process includes transportation of nuclear fuel or materials inside a robust shipping cask to a hot cell, removal from the shipping cask, pre-irradiation examination of the nuclear materials, assembly of an experiment assembly, transportation of the experiment assembly to the test reactor, irradiation in the test reactor, transport back to the hot cell, and post-irradiation examination of the nuclear fuel or material. The potential for environmental or health consequences during the transportation, examination, and irradiation actions are assessed for normal operations, off-normal (accident) scenarios, and transportation. Impacts to the environment (air, soil, and groundwater), are assessed during each phase of the transient testing process. This report documents the evaluation of potential consequences to the general public. This document supports the Environmental Assessment (EA) required by the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (42 USC Subsection 4321 et seq.).