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Options for modifying existing and future DPCs for disposal

Hardin, Ernest H.; Alsaed, Abdelhalim; Damjanac, Branko

The overall DOE R&D strategy for DPC disposition includes a significant effort directed toward consequence screening to determine if engineered solutions discussed above are needed. Work to develop injectable filler technology will continue. The disposal criticality control features approach, and zone loading, have not been investigated since the EPRI studies in 2008-2009. The utility of such measures would be maximized by implementing them soon. This ongoing study is motivated by comparative cost analysis [7] that showed the potential cost savings using the control rods/blades approach, compared to repackaging (comparing the two most technically mature options for DPC disposition and retaining the low-probability criticality screening objective) would be approximately $2 million per DPC.