Burnup Credit Applications in a High-Capacity Truck Cask
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
General Atomics (GA) has designed two legal weight truck (LWT) casks, the GA-4 and GA-9, to carry four pressurized-water-reactor (PWR) and nine boiling-water-reactor (BWR) fuel assemblies, respectively. GA plans to submit applications for certification to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the two casks in mid-1993. GA will include burnup credit analysis in the Safety Analysis Report for Packaging (SARP) for the GA-4 Cask. By including burnup credit in the criticality safety analysis for PWR fuels with initial enrichments above 3% U-235, public and occupation risks are reduced, and cost savings are realized. The GA approach to burnup credit analysis incorporates the information produced in the US Department of Energy Burnup Credit Program. This paper describes the application of burnup credit to the criticality control design of the GA-4 Cask.
- Research Organization:
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (NCSP); USDOE Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-88ID12698
- OSTI ID:
- 6946090
- Report Number(s):
- GA-A-20772; EGG-M--92430; CONF-920905--39; ON: DE93001947
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, Journal Name: Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 30; ISSN 1735-1871
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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