Full scale torch tests on spent fuel cask shipping system
Conference
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OSTI ID:5315626
Full scale experimental measurements, including the instrumentation designed to obtain the data, are presented on the thermal effects of torch fires on a large, spent nuclear fuel shipping cask. The measured temperature data in the various materials of the multilayered cask are unique, since no torch tests have been previously performed on a cask: These data were obtained during a series of four torch tests which simulate a situation in which the relief valve of a liquefied gas tank railcar has been opened and and the contents are vented and ignited so that the resultant torch impinges on the cask. The modified cask instrumentation geometry and materials are discussed. Temperature data throughout the cask are compared for two cask on the corrugated outer jacket surface, within the neutron shield, on the carbon steel shell, on the inner stainless steel shell and near the cask head closure seals are presented for the four torch tests.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA); Ridihalgh, Eggers and Associates, Columbus, OH (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 5315626
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-82-0189C; CONF-820513-1; ON: DE82010162
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ENERGY SOURCES
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IRON BASE ALLOYS
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MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
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SPENT FUEL CASKS
SPENT FUELS
STAINLESS STEELS
STEELS
TEMPERATURE EFFECTS
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THERMOCOUPLES
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11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
42 ENGINEERING
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ALLOYS
CARBON STEELS
CASKS
CHROMIUM ALLOYS
CONTAINERS
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DATA
ENERGY SOURCES
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FIRE HAZARDS
FIRES
FUELS
HAZARDS
INFORMATION
IRON ALLOYS
IRON BASE ALLOYS
MATERIALS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
NUCLEAR FUELS
NUMERICAL DATA
REACTOR MATERIALS
SIMULATION
SPENT FUEL CASKS
SPENT FUELS
STAINLESS STEELS
STEELS
TEMPERATURE EFFECTS
TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT
TESTING
THERMOCOUPLES
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS