This book contains papers from a NATO-sponsored workshop in Almaty in September 2005. At the workshop, specialists from the IAEA, Brazil, France, Kazakhstan, Poland, Russia, USA and Uzbekistan discussed safety-related issues of storing spent nuclear fuel. Fifteen papers cover aluminum-clad fuel discharged from research reactors worldwide, while five papers examine stainless steel-clad fuel from fast reactors, and two Zircaloy-clad fuel from commercial light-water reactors.

The volume covers both fuel behavior in storage pools as well as dry storage of spent fuel in an inert atmosphere in shielded casks, which, due to lack of space, many countries are beginning to use. The lack of wet storage space at most reactors and concerns regarding possible sabotage remain as issues that need to be periodically addressed.

CITATION: Safety Related Issues of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Safety Related Issues of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage, held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 26-29 September 2005, Lambert, J.D.B.; Kadyrzhanov, K.K. (Eds.), Springer, 2007.

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