[2O19-20] Design and Maintenance of Nuclear Reactor Equipment and Storage Facilities

[2O19] Investigation on the current situation of spent nuclear fuel storage in Germany

*Satoshi Ishikawa¹, Takayasu Hayashi¹, Yoshitaka Kanemitsu², Yuta Kawagoe², Ayaka Kimura², Jürgen Skrzyppek³, Linus Bettermann³ (1. ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation, 2. ITOCHU Corporation, 3. GNS)

Keywords:Metal cask, MOX fuel, Dry storage facility, Interim storage facility, DCI cask

We investigated on-site storage facilities and metal casks including ones for MOX fuels in Germany, especially their methods of on-site storage and performances on burnups, cooling times and storage times of spent fuels loaded on the casks in the facilities.