Critical experiments supporting underwater storage of tightly packed configurations of spent fuel pins. Technical progress report, January 1-March 31, 1981

Technical Report · Tue Mar 31 23:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6057907

Hoovler, G S; Baldwin, M N

Critical experiments are in progress on arrays of 2 1/2% enriched UO/sub 2/ fuel pins simulating underwater pin storage of spent power reactor fuel. Pin storage refers to a spent fuel storage concept in which the fuel assemblies are dismantled and the fuel pins are tightly packed into specially designed canisters. These experiments are providing benchmark data with which to validate nuclear codes used to design spent fuel pin storage racks.

• Research Organization: Babcock and Wilcox Co., Lynchburg, VA (USA). Research and Development Div.
• DOE Contract Number: AC09-79ET47923
• OSTI ID: 6057907
• Report Number(s): BAW-1645-3; ON: DE82002563
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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