Spent Fuel Storage and Handling. System (SFS).There are three Fuel Buildings at this three unit plant, one for each unit. Each Fuel Building is a five-story reinforced concrete structure located adjacent to the Containment Building. Each Fuel Building is approximately 107 feet tall (above and below grade), 88 feet wide, and 124 feet long. Each Fuel Building contains one spent fuel storage pool, new fuel unloading and storage areas, spent fuel cask loading pit, fuel transfer canal, spent fuel cask washdown area, spent fuel pool equipment rooms, spent fuel equipment laydown area, new fuel container storage area and a railroad loading bay for spent fuel containers. The SFS for each Unit includes the spent fuel storage pool, spent fuel cask loading pit, spent fuel cask washdown area, spent fuel pool equipment rooms, spent fuel equipment laydown area and the railroad loading bay and the portion of the Fuel Building that houses such equipment. Fuel assemblies are brought into the fuel handling building by truck in shipping containers containing two assemblies each. The assemblies are unloaded by means of the new fuel handling crane and stored on racks in the new fuel storage pit. When needed, the new fuel handling crane lifts the fuel assembly from the new fuel storage pit and carries it to a new fuel elevator, located at the containment building end of the transfer canal, which lowers the assembly to the floor of the transfer canal. The fuel handling machine then picks up the assembly and places it on an upending device (xxxxxxx) in the transfer canal. The xxxxxxx xxxxxx the upright fuel assembly to a horizontal position and puts it on the fuel transfer car. The car carries the assembly through the transfer tube to the reactor containment building. Spent fuel is removed from the containment building and transferred back to the fuel handling building in the reverse process. Once inside the fuel handling building, the spent fuel handling machine places the spent fuel into high density storage racks in the spent fuel pool for storage. Spent fuel is stored in the spent fuel pools prior to shipment offsite. When spent fuel is to be shipped offsite a spent fuel cask is brought into the fuel handling building by rail. The cask is then cleaned. The cask handling bridge crane lifts the cask from the railcar into the cask loading pit and the lid of the cask is removed. The cask loading pit is then flooded and the spent fuel handling machine removes the fuel assembly to be shipped from the spent fuel poo...
