Experience with Certifying Borated Stainless Steel as a Shipping Cask Basket Material

Conference · Sun Apr 08 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6080518

Abbott, David G. ^[1]; Nickell, Robert E. ^[2]

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1. Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States). EG&G Idaho, Inc.
2. Applied Science and Technology, Inc., Poway CA (United States)

The original cask designs for a cask demonstration project 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, however, 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.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States). EG&G Idaho, Inc.; Applied Science and Technology, Inc., Poway, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP); USDOE Office of Secretary of Energy (S), Office of Civilian Radioactive Water Management
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-76ID01570
• OSTI ID: 6080518
• Report Number(s): EGG-M-89526; CONF-900406--78; ON: DE91006203
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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SEMIMETALS
SPENT FUEL CASKS
SPENT FUELS
STAINLESS STEELS
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