Technical Meeting on the Management of Spent Fuel at Shutdown Reactor Sites, Including Those to be Shut Down Prematurely
IAEA HQ, Vienna, Austria, June 11-13, 2018
Spent Fuel Management Plan
for Shutdown Reactor Sites
in South Korea
Donghak Kook
2Current National Status
Nuclear ReactorRx Operation Construction Planned
PWR 20 5 2
CANDU 4 - -
Total 24 5 2
3Current National Status
(Courtesy of KINS-WACID, as of December 2017)
Site Kori Hanbit Hanul Wolsung Daejeon
FacilityKori
1, 2, 3, 4Shin-Kori
1, 2Hanbit
1 - 6Hanul1 - 6
Shin-Wolsung1, 2
Wolsung1 - 4
KAERI
Rx PWR PWR PWR PWR PWR CANDU PIEF pool
StorageCapacity (#)
6,494 9,017 7,066 1,046 499,632 20
Stored FuelAssembly (#)
5,008 1,016 6,103 5,263 317 122,912 313,200 10
Wet / Dry Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Dry Wet
Saturated (%) 92.8 67.7 74.5 30.3 87.3 50.0
FutureSolution
Dry Storage Dry Storage Dry Storage - 7 more MACSTORReturnto Rx
SF Inventory
4Current National Status
Type of System Currently Only CANDU SF dry storage
Concrete Silo: 300 Units
(60 x 9 x 300 = 162,000 FA)
MACSTOR : 7 Units
(60 x 10 x 4 x 10 x 7= 168,000 FA)
Empty Space for additional 7 MACSTOR units in future
5Look Ahead
Construction Permission* Change Permit of Operating License
’18.Dec
4. Licensing
Prep.
Licensing Review
Construction/Manufacturing
Operation(’26~)
Spent fuel dry storage facility construction at Kori and Hanbit NPP site
Kori NPP site in Gijang Busan City
Hanbit NPP site in Yeonggwang Jeonnam Province
Type: spent fuel dry storage inside a building
Capacity : 1st ~1,500 FA(Kori-1) & 2nd [~5,000 FA(Kori) / ~7,000 FA(Hanbit)]
Courtesy ofSpent Fuel Dry Storage Facility Project Plan(Pre.)
6Look Ahead
May 1972 : Approval for Construction June 1977 : First Criticality April 1978 : Commercial Operation June 2007 : Expiration of License Dec. 2007 : Approval for Extended License (10 years) June 2015 : Decision for Decommission June/18/2017 : Permanent Shutdown for Decommissioning 485 Spent Fuel Assemblies in the SFP (Heat Load : ~ 1.5 MW, Sep/15/2017)
Net Capacity : 576 MWe Reactor Type : Westinghouse NSSS : GEC Architecture : Gilbert Construction : Westinghouse Generation for 40 yrs: 155,260 GWh
Courtesy ofFirst Shutdowned NPP in Korea
Kori - 1
7Look Ahead
Courtesy ofD&D Plan for Kori-1 Unit
Licensing(’17.6～’22.6)
Public HearingApproval on D&D plan
SF Unloading(’17.6～’25.12)
Safety CheckConstruction of Dry Storage System
D & D(’22.6～’30.12)
DecommissiongDismantlement
Site Restoration(’31.1～’32.12)
Site RestorationFinal report on complete of D&D
8Decommissioning Schedule for NPP in Korea
Year ~’20 ’20~’30 ’30~’40 ’40~’50 ’50~’60 ’60~’70 ’70~’80
Without Extended Op. 2 10 4 4 4 - 8
10 yr Extended Op. 1 1 10 4 5 2 -
20 yr Extended Op. - 1 1 10 4 5 2
Number of units starting Decommissioning
Courtesy of
9Brief Overview on Central Storage/Disposal
Legislation for this plan is still pending in
the Congress for 2 years since July 2016
10Work to support fuel storage at Shutdown sites
PreliminaryPlanning
Design in detail
Manufacturing& Constructionof Dry Storage
System
2021. 12
License
SF transfer toDry Storage
System
2024. 12
Complete
2025. 12
Operation Start
Dry Storage
Starting
of Kori-1
D&D
Local Electionthrough the country
Public HearingCommission again ?
2018. 06. 13
Current KHNP Plan
It is Tomorrow ~!!
2018. 06. 12
Thank you for attention
