atw 2019-03

atw Vol. 64 (2019) | Issue 3 ı March
DECOMMISSIONING AND WASTE MANAGEMENT 158
| | Fig. 15.
Shielding basket and loading station in the spent fuel pool (left) and the service station with mobile hot
cell positioned on the shielding block and equipment on the reactor floor (right).
| | Fig. 16.
Storage rack and quiver (left), top shielding on shielding basket (right).
| | Fig. 17.
Transport of the shielding basket to the shielding block (left), mobile hot cell (right).
service station is located at the reactor
floor outside of the pool (Figure 15).
After mounting the transfer head
piece, the loaded quivers were lifted
up out of the storage rack and transferred
to the loading station into the
shielding basket. Here the head piece
was removed and a top shielding was
installed to close the shielding basket
(Figure 16).
The shielding basket containing
the loaded quiver was then lifted up to
the reactor floor. Once the shielding
basket is inside of the shielding block,
in a first step the quiver was dewatered.
Next, the mobile hot cell was
mounted on top of the shielding block
(Figure 17). Prior to drying the
quiver, the top shielding was replaced
with the multi cover, which provides
connections to the drying device and
the heating device.
The quiver was then evacuated
using vacuum pumps, the humidity
was removed from the quiver and was
recovered as condensate in a condenser.
The operating data of the
drying device were recorded and
stored in a stationary computer. After
finishing the drying procedure, the
­interior of the quiver was filled with
helium.
Next, the lid screwing device
( Figure 18) was positioned on the
base body of the quiver. It screws the
lid into the base body automatically,
while all the parameters can be monitored
remotely by the operator.
Afterwards the welding machine
was positioned, that automatically
connected the lid and the base body of
the quiver by means of a qualified
welding procedure (Figure 19). As
last step, the leak tightness of the
welding seam was tested.
Finally, the quiver could be transferred
back to the storage rack in the
spent fuel pool.
| | Fig. 18.
Close-up of the lid screwing device (left), welding machine and lid screwing device (right).
| | Fig. 19.
Welding device (left), welded lid (right).
6.3 First Quiver campaign –
Main results
The dispatch of the first quiver started
in Unterweser NPP on 12 October and
was completed on 21 October 2018.
The drying process lasted about
6 days. The maximum dose rate at
the service station was less than
70 mSv/h. The second quiver dispatch
started on 23 October and was completed
on 01 November 2018. Again
the drying process lasted 6 days. The
third dispatch started on 02 November
and lasted until 16 November. The
drying process took about 11 days.
The dose rate of the second and the
third dispatch were comparable to the
first dispatch.
Decommissioning and Waste Management
Quivers for Damaged and Non-Standard Fuel Rods ı Sascha Bechtel, Wolfgang Faber, Hagen Höfer, Frank Jüttemann, Martin Kaplik, Michael Köbl, Bernhard Kühne and Marc Verwerft