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HLW From Fuel Processing Facility<br />

6.139<br />

Recycle<br />

Facilities -- Note: Lines between boxes<br />

Sdenote waste transportation<br />

Sbetween facilities<br />

Reactor<br />

Spent<br />

UF6<br />

anda and<br />

Fuel PO2 Space Disposal<br />

Ld SelSpecial<br />

Reactor Fuel Fuel t oa Payload Preparation<br />

Spent M - processing Launch<br />

Fuel Assemblies Facility HLW<br />

Solar Orbit<br />

Reactor (See Expansion Below)<br />

Spent<br />

Fuel<br />

Ot THulls and Other<br />

Note: Lines between -<br />

boxes denote waste<br />

transportation between<br />

facilities.<br />

-<br />

Mined<br />

Geologic<br />

Repository<br />

TRU <strong>Waste</strong>s<br />

FUEL CYCLE DIAGRAM - SPACE DISPOSAL<br />

Package waste from Load in Special Rail Unload and Hook Load into Reentry<br />

Manned Flight Vehicle<br />

Containing the OTV, t<br />

P/E Facility in Flight C n Spec up Cooling System Vehicle and Transport<br />

t t<br />

SOIS, & Reentry Vehicle,<br />

Weight Container and NPPF* and Ship to r for Temporary Storage to Uprated Space to Orbit 160 Nautical<br />

Space Mision Shield at NPPF Shuttle at Launch Pad Miles from Earth at<br />

38° Inclination<br />

Ch d Deploy OTV T, Nucl .. OTV Plac SOIS Nuclea, SOIS and Nuclear Payload Paylodad in 0.85 Au<br />

Saway from Shuttle Vehile Separates and is Payload into Earth Reach 0.85 Au Perigeo Circular Solar Orbit<br />

may from Shuttle Vehicle Separates and is a _E r 'r.<br />

(about 1 K Retrieved by Shuttle Escape Trajectory in about 160 Days (Heliocentric Orbit)<br />

(At 1 ° Inclination)<br />

OTV Releases From SOIS<br />

OTVRel ade F<br />

and Nuclear Payload and --<br />

Returns to Shuttle<br />

1-<br />

Shuttle with Reusable<br />

OTV & Reentry Vehicle<br />

Returns to Ground at<br />

K eu R eSolar<br />

SC for euse<br />

(Unpowered Runway<br />

Landing)<br />

Nuclear Payload<br />

Remains in Stable<br />

Orbit for at<br />

Least 106 Years<br />

* Nuclear Payload Preparation Facility<br />

* * Kennedy Space Center<br />

t Orbital Transfer Vehicle<br />

tt Solar Orbit Insertion Stage PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAM - SPACE DISPOSAL<br />

FIGURE 6.1.23. <strong>Waste</strong> <strong>Management</strong> System--Space Disposal

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