Document: 10 CFR Part 72
Document ID: ca014a24-7e7c-4eda-83b1-fa293add8f5a
Document Type: cfr
Title: Specific requirements for spent fuel storage cask approval and fabrication.
Source: 10 CFR Part 72
Source URL: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-10/part-72/section-72.236
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Section ID: 72.236
CFR Part: 72
CFR Title: 10

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storage cask must be inspected to ascertain that there are no cracks, pinholes, uncontrolled voids, or other defects that could significantly reduce its confinement effectiveness. ( k ) The spent fuel storage cask must be conspicuously and durably marked with— ( 1 ) A model number; ( 2 ) A unique identification number; and ( 3 ) An empty weight. ( l ) The spent fuel storage cask and its systems important to safety must be evaluated, by appropriate tests or by other means acceptable to the NRC, to demonstrate that they will reasonably maintain confinement of radioactive material under normal, off-normal, and credible accident conditions. ( m ) To the extent practicable in the design of spent fuel storage casks, consideration should be given to compatibility with removal of the stored spent fuel from a reactor site, transportation, and ultimate disposition by the Department of Energy. ( n ) Safeguards Information shall be protected against unauthorized disclosure in accordance with the requirements of § 73.21 and the requirements of § 73.22 or § 73.23 of this chapter , as applicable. [ 64 FR 56126 , Oct. 15, 1999, as amended at 65 FR 50617 , Aug. 21, 2000; 73 FR 63573 , Oct. 24, 2008; 76 FR 8891 , Feb. 16, 2011]