2019:22 Technical Note, SSM’s external experts’ reviews of SKB’s report on supplementary information on canister integrity issues

SSM perspective

Background

The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) reviews the Swedish Nuclear Fuel Company’s (SKB) applications under the Act on Nuclear Activities (SFS 1984:3) for the construction and operation of a repository for spent nuclear fuel and for an encapsulation facility. As part of the review, SSM commissions consultants to carry out work in order to obtain information on speci-c issues. The results from the consultants’ tasks are reported in SSM’s Technical Note series.

Objective

The objectives of the project is to develop a basis for SSM’s own review of canister corrosion issues, the signi-cance of corrosion issues in the context of canister integrity in the repository environment, as well as consequence analysis related to those issues.

Content

  1. Review Assignment for the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority: Corrosion of Copper Canister, John R. Scully, Timothy W. Hicks.
  2. Review Assignment for the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority: Corrosion of Copper Canister, Peter Szakálos, Christofer Leygraf.
  3. Review of Assignment for the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority: Independent Canister Integrity Modelling and Dose Assessment, Osvaldo Pensado, Stuart Stotho.
  4. Review of Assignment for the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority: Biosphere review and independent dose assessment of complementary information relating to spent nuclear