Initial Site-Specific De-Inventory Report for Big Rock Point Report No.: RPT-3014537-002
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report has been developed to satisfy solicitation number 6400013399 under subcontract number 4000138474 issued by UT-Battelle, LLC, managing contractor of Oak Ridge National Laboratory to AREVA Federal Services (AFS). The purpose of this report is to assist the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy (DOE) in laying the groundwork for implementing an integrated waste management system. This includes preparing for future large-scale transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF), High-Level Radioactive Waste (HLW) and Greater Than Class C (GTCC) Low-Level Radioactive Waste (LLW). This report addresses the tasks, equipment, and interfaces necessary for the complete de-inventory of the Big Rock Point (BRP) site on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan about 4 miles north of Charlevoix and approximately 11 miles west of Petoskey, MI. As such, this report is intended to provide information useful for planning options within the integrated waste management system. Multiple modes of transport of the SNF and GTCC LLW were considered as part of this report (i.e., heavy haul truck (HHT), rail, and barge). Both barge and HHT transport to rail were evaluated as viable modes of transport by this assessment. To assess the identified routes and modes, a Multi-Attribute Utility Analysis (MUA) was performed. In addition to subject matter expert (SME) input, data from DOE’s Stakeholder Tool for Assessing Radioactive Transportation (START) program was utilized to support the evaluation of the routes in the MUA. The MUA identified the favored route for shipping the SNF and GTCC LLW, which also identified the mode(s) of transport. The results from the MUA identified a ranking of routes from the BRP site, the highest ranked routes identified utilize HHT from the site to a rail transload site in either Petoskey, MI or Gaylord, MI. The top four routes from the MUA involved transloading at sites in Petoskey, MI and all ranked very closely to one another and essentially are indistinguishable from one another. The highest ranked route travels by HHT from the BRP site east along Lake Michigan to a potential transload site along Clarion Avenue in Petoskey, MI and then traveling by rail on the Great Lakes Central Railroad (GLC) south to Durand, MI, where the interchange between the Class II carrier and the Class I carrier Canadian National (CN) takes place, to the hypothetical destination near the geographical center of the 48 contiguous United States (GCUS). This route was only marginally favored over three other HHT routes to Petoskey, MI (two to another potential transload site along Washington Street and one from the same transload site but following a different rail route), followed by two HHT routes to Gaylord, MI, and finally a barge route to Milwaukee, WI. The six other routes considered in the analysis (in descending rank): HHT from the BRP Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) to transload along Washington Street in Petoskey, MI and rail (on GLC) via interchange in Durand, MI (to CN) to GCUS; HHT from the BRP ISFSI to transload along Clarion Avenue in Petoskey, MI and rail (on GLC) via interchange to CSX in Annpere, MI (near Howell, MI) to GCUS; HHT from the BRP ISFSI to transload along Washington Street in Petoskey, MI and rail (on GLC) via interchange in Annpere, MI near Howell, MI (to CSX) to GCUS; HHT from the BRP ISFSI to transload in Gaylord, MI and rail (on Lake State Railway Company (LSRC)) via interchange in Bay City, MI (to Huron and Eastern Railway (HESR)) and in Durand, MI (to CN) to GCUS; HHT from the BRP ISFSI to transload in Gaylord, MI and rail (on LSRC) via interchange in Flint, MI (to CSX) to GCUS; and barge from the BRP ISFSI to transload in Milwaukee, WI and rail (on Union Pacific (UP)) to GCUS.
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Initial Site-Specific De-Inventory Report for Big Rock Point May 10, 2017
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