With the continuously escalating demand for longer term interim dry storage of spent nuclear fuel from light water reactors, coupled with the increasingly high-burnup levels of that fuel, comes the need to enhance the technical basis for such storage. In 2010, the Department of Energy initiated a program whose goal is to identify and study those technical issues requiring further research and development, focusing on the degradation processes that occur during normal and off-normal dry storage conditions.
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