Reprocessing Facilities - hdbk1132990084

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The IFMSF should provide for the interim canning of leaking assemblies

until disposal.

Special design features should be considered for safe loading, removal,

and handling of IFM. These systems and equipment should protect

against the dropping of shipping casks, IFM assemblies, and other items

onto the stored IFM. In water-pool type facilities, damage to the pool

during loading and unloading operations should not allow the pool level to

drop below the minimum allowable depth. Consideration should be given

to features that will prevent breaching the pool integrity if a shipping cask

is dropped.

Exhaust systems for pool areas should be HEPA-filtered. Other types of

air-cleaning devices (adsorbers) should be considered.

Airborne radioactive wastes typically associated with IFMSFs that should

be considered include but are not limited to airborne releases associated

with the venting of transport casks and storage vessels. Cladding or

canning failure during long-term wet or dry storage is also a source of

airborne radioactive wastes.

Ventilation system design should consider the evaporation, mixing, and

condensation of potentially tritiated sources in collection systems above

and around pool areas.

REPROCESSING FACILITIES .

2.6

2.6.1

Introduction . A reprocessing facility is typically designed to recover uranium,

plutonium, and other selected actinides and selected fission products from

irradiated fissile fuel material and target material. The reprocessing facility is

typically designed to separate these materials from each other and from any

remaining actinides and fission products.

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