Nondestructive Assay Data Integration with the SKB-50 Assemblies - FY16 Update

Technical Report · Fri Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1330638· OSTI ID:1330638

Tobin, Stephen Joseph ^[1]; Fugate, Michael Lynn ^[1]; Trellue, Holly Renee ^[1]; DeBaere, Paul ^[2]; Sjoland, Anders ^[3]; Liljenfeldt, Henrik ^[4]; Hu, Jianwei ^[4]; Backstrom, Ulrika ^[5]; Bengtsson, Martin ^[5]; Burr, Tomas ^[6]; Eliasson, Annika ^[3]; Favalli, Andrea ^[1]; Gauld, Ian ^[4]; Grogan, Brandon ^[4]; Jansson, Peter ^[7]; Junell, Henrik ^[3]; Schwalbach, Peter ^[2]; Vaccaro, Stefano ^[2]; Vo, Duc Ta ^[1]; Wildestrand, Henrik ^[5]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
2. DG Energy, Luxembourg (Germany)
3. Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company, Stockholm (Sweden)
4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
5. Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company, Stockholm (Sweden); Vattenfall AB, Stockholm (Sweden)
6. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
7. Uppsala Univ. (Sweden)

A project to research the application of non-destructive assay (NDA) techniques for spent fuel assemblies is underway at the Central Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel (for which the Swedish acronym is Clab) in Oskarshamn, Sweden. The research goals of this project contain both safeguards and non-safeguards interests. These nondestructive assay (NDA) technologies are designed to strengthen the technical toolkit of safeguard inspectors and others to determine the following technical goals more accurately; Verify initial enrichment, burnup, and cooling time of facility declaration for spent fuel assemblies; Detect replaced or missing pins from a given spent fuel assembly to confirm its integrity; and Estimate plutonium mass and related plutonium and uranium fissile mass parameters in spent fuel assemblies. Estimate heat content, and measure reactivity (multiplication).

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1330638
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-16-28290; TRN: US1700458
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
98 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS, AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION
NUCLEAR MATERIALS DIVERSION
SPENT FUELS
PLUTONIUM
COOLING TIME
FUEL ASSEMBLIES
URANIUM
SAFEGUARDS
HEAT
MASS
STORAGE FACILITIES
BURNUP
ENRICHMENT
VERIFICATION
REACTIVITY
NONDESTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS