Experience with certifying borated stainless steel as a shipping cask basket material

Conference · Mon Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:145006

Abbott, D G ^[1]; Nickell, R E ^[2]

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1. Idaho National Engineering Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
2. Applied Science and Technology, Poway, CA (United States)

This paper discusses the original cask designs for a cask demonstration project that has featured fuel baskets constructed of borated stainless steel (bss) as a structural material. The project is intended to demonstrate casks that can be used for both shipping and storing spent nuclear fuel assemblies. The baskets were intended to maintain the fuel assemblies in a subcritical array for both normal and accident conditions. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, judged bss to be unacceptable as a structural material. The cask designs were subsequently modified. The knowledge gained during this cask demonstration project may be applicable to development of bss as a basket material in future cask design.

• DOE Contract Number: AC07-76ID01570
• OSTI ID: 145006
• Report Number(s): CONF-900406--; ISBN 0-87262-751-9
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

05 NUCLEAR FUELS
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
DESIGN
PERFORMANCE
SPENT FUEL CASKS
STAINLESS STEELS