Description
Handling accidents, such as dropping a fuel assembly before loading into a canister, or dropping a loaded canister, may occur. This may affect the integrity of the fuel. Such events are expected to be rare, furthermore, no credit is given to Zircaloy cladding as a post-canister breaching containment barrier, so a significant impact on radionuclide releases calculated in the safety assessment is not expected.
OPA Category
Category as used in the OPA assessment
Spent fuel
OPA Number
Number as used in the OPA assessment
4.02
Waste Relevance
Classes of waste to which this FEP is relevant
SF
Screening
Screening basis for screened out FEPs
NA
NEA V1 IFEP Reference(s)
Related IFEPs from the NEA V1 IFEP list from 1999
1.1.12