Susan Y PickeringSandia National Laboratories Albuquerque,New Mexico,USA中国工程科学:英文版Seismic considerations for spent nuclear fuel storage in dry casks[J]. John L Bignell,Jeffrey A Smith,Christopher A Jones,Susan Y Pickering.Engineering Sciences. 2013(03)...
Storage skid Outer shell Primary lid Basket Transport skid Support cylinder Metal gasket Resin (b) Storage stage (a) Transport stage Dual-purpose Transport and Storage Dry-type Metal Casks for Spent Nuclear Fuel 154 storage. A block-structure resin was adopted for the radiation shielding to enable...
spent-fuel storagecask dropdecelerationAn experimental cask drop program initiated by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and conducted by AEA Technology under contract to British Nuclear Fuels, Inc., is evaluated and compared with analytical techniques. The dropped cask was a full-scale storage ...
Cladding Integrity Highly Active Waste Prolonged Dry Storage Spent Nuclear Fuel Technical Support Organization 1. Introduction In Germany, the dry storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) in casks was implemented in 1995 with the admission of the first cask in the independent interim storage facility at...
Because of concerns about the safety of dense-packed spent-fuel pools, however, the prefectures and towns hosting Japan's power reactors are beginning to accept on-site storage of spent fuel in dry casks. This is the option the United States and many other countries chose after they cancelled...
Currently, the dry storage facility at nuclear power plant no. 1 has been tested. The safety review of the dry storage facilities of nuclear power plant no. 2 has also been completed. There are few studies regarding the heat transfer performance of dry spent fuel storage casks. Xie et al....
Spent fuel from nuclear reactors is highly radioactive. Water is good for both radiation shielding and cooling, so fuel is stored at the bottom of pools for a couple decades until it’s inert enough to be moved into dry casks. We haven’t really agreed on where to put those dry casks ...
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) continues to view dry casks as an interim or temporary storage method for spent nuclear fuel until a permanent repository for high-level nuclear waste is available. NRC found in 1990 as part of its revised Waste Confidence Decision ...
Spent fuel storage facility is required to have those four safety functions and is subjected to IAEA's safeguard in order to show that the spent fuel is not utilized for nuclear weapons, etc. Table 14.1. Examples of specifications of spent nuclear fuel assemblies ItemBWRPWR Fuel type High ...
Germany initially planned to store spent nuclear fuel in the two away-from-reactor interim storagernfacilities built at Ahaus and Gorleben. The current approach for spent fuel management is on-site interim storagernin transport and storage casks as part of a political agreement between the German ...