Safety Issues of Dry Fuel Storage at RSWF
Conference
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OSTI ID:10114630
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Safety issues associated with the dry storage of EBR-II spent fuel are presented and discussed. The containers for the fuel have been designed to prevent a leak of fission gases to the environment. The storage system has four barriers for the fission gases. These barriers are the fuel cladding, an inner container, an outer container, and the liner at the RSWF. Analysis has shown that the probability of a leak to the environment is much less than 10⁻6 per year, indicating that such an event is not considered credible. A drop accident, excessive thermal loads, criticality, and possible failure modes of the containers are also addressed.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP); USDOE Reactor Research Technology
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 10114630
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/TD/CP-84443; CONF-941207-19; ON: DE95005869; TRN: 95:001571
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ANS Topical Meeting on DOE Spent Nuclear Fuel: Challenges and Initiatives , Salt Lake City, UT (United States), 14-16 Dec 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1995]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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