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Packaged spent fuel storage facility<br />

Storage<br />

Offsite storage facilities<br />

Extended storage facilities<br />

Storage facility<br />

157<br />

WASTE MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS<br />

(ESFSF) Extended Spent Fuel Storage Facilities<br />

Dry caisson storage facility<br />

SURF<br />

Response<br />

DOE agrees it is desirable to .use terms consistently throughout to avoid confusion and<br />

to facilitate comparisons. DOE also agrees that some valid confusion over terminology could<br />

have resulted in the draft Statement; efforts have been made to correct this in the final<br />

Statement. The acronym AFR has been used in the final Statement to denote a storage<br />

facility separate from the reactor site.<br />

Draft p. 2.2<br />

Issue<br />

Four impact statements on TRU waste are mentioned as being in preparation by DOE (SRP,<br />

INEL, RL, AND LASL). Data from DOE received by NRC in conjunction with the DOE licensing<br />

study showed TRU waste to exist at ORNL. Will there be an environmental statement for<br />

ORNL? (208-NRC)<br />

Response<br />

Yes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is also preparing an EIS for transuranic wastes.<br />

Draft p. 3.1.83<br />

Issue<br />

Spent fuel storage at the reactor pool certainly will be done, not "can be done," for<br />

a minimum <strong>of</strong> six months. (181)<br />

Response<br />

The referenced statement in the draft Statement was, "...interim storage <strong>of</strong> the unpack-<br />

aged fuel can be done at either the power plant basin or at an independent spent fuel stor-<br />

age facility...." DOE did not intend to imply that the duration <strong>of</strong> storage at the reactor<br />

would be less than six months, which appears to be what concerned the commenter. DOE agrees<br />

that spent fuel will most likely be stored for at least six months in the reactor pools.

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