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Title: Spent fuel sabotage aerosol test program :FY 2005-06 testing and aerosol data summary.

Abstract

This multinational, multi-phase spent fuel sabotage test program is quantifying the aerosol particles produced when the products of a high energy density device (HEDD) interact with and explosively particulate test rodlets that contain pellets of either surrogate materials or actual spent fuel. This program has been underway for several years. This program provides source-term data that are relevant to some sabotage scenarios in relation to spent fuel transport and storage casks, and associated risk assessments. This document focuses on an updated description of the test program and test components for all work and plans made, or revised, primarily during FY 2005 and about the first two-thirds of FY 2006. It also serves as a program status report as of the end of May 2006. We provide details on the significant findings on aerosol results and observations from the recently completed Phase 2 surrogate material tests using cerium oxide ceramic pellets in test rodlets plus non-radioactive fission product dopants. Results include: respirable fractions produced; amounts, nuclide content, and produced particle size distributions and morphology; status on determination of the spent fuel ratio, SFR (the ratio of respirable particles from real spent fuel/respirables from surrogate spent fuel, measured under closely matched testmore » conditions, in a contained test chamber); and, measurements of enhanced volatile fission product species sorption onto respirable particles. We discuss progress and results for the first three, recently performed Phase 3 tests using depleted uranium oxide, DUO{sub 2}, test rodlets. We will also review the status of preparations and the final Phase 4 tests in this program, using short rodlets containing actual spent fuel from U.S. PWR reactors, with both high- and lower-burnup fuel. These data plus testing results and design are tailored to support and guide, follow-on computer modeling of aerosol dispersal hazards and radiological consequence assessments. This spent fuel sabotage--aerosol test program, performed primarily at Sandia National Laboratories, with support provided by both the U.S. Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, had significant inputs from, and is strongly supported and coordinated by both the U.S. and international program participants in Germany, France, and the U.K., as part of the international Working Group for Sabotage Concerns of Transport and Storage Casks, WGSTSC.« less

Authors:
; ;  [1];  [2];  [3]; ;  [4];  [5];  [6]; ;  [7];  [8];
  1. Fraunhofer institut fur toxikologie und experimentelle Medizin, Germany
  2. Institut de radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire, France
  3. Fraunhofer institut fur toxikologie und experimentelle Medizin, Germany
  4. Institut de radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire, France
  5. Gesellschaft fur anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit, Germany
  6. Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  7. Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  8. Gesellschaft fur anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit, Germany
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
894323
Report Number(s):
SAND2006-5674
TRN: US0700146
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-94AL85000
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; AEROSOLS; CASKS; CERAMICS; CERIUM OXIDES; COMPUTERS; DEPLETED URANIUM; ENERGY DENSITY; FISSION PRODUCTS; ISOTOPES; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATES; PELLETS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SABOTAGE; SORPTION; SPENT FUELS; STORAGE; TESTING; TRANSPORT; Spent fuel storage.; Spent fuel casks-Transportation-Safety.; Spent fuel casks-Safety.; Sabotage-Risk assessment.; Aerosol propellants.

Citation Formats

Gregson, Michael Warren, Brockmann, John E, Nolte, O, Loiseau, O, Koch, W, Molecke, Martin Alan, Autrusson, Bruno, Pretzsch, Gunter Guido, Billone, M C, Lucero, Daniel A, Burtseva, T, Brucher, W, and Steyskal, Michele D. Spent fuel sabotage aerosol test program :FY 2005-06 testing and aerosol data summary.. United States: N. p., 2006. Web. doi:10.2172/894323.
Gregson, Michael Warren, Brockmann, John E, Nolte, O, Loiseau, O, Koch, W, Molecke, Martin Alan, Autrusson, Bruno, Pretzsch, Gunter Guido, Billone, M C, Lucero, Daniel A, Burtseva, T, Brucher, W, & Steyskal, Michele D. Spent fuel sabotage aerosol test program :FY 2005-06 testing and aerosol data summary.. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/894323
Gregson, Michael Warren, Brockmann, John E, Nolte, O, Loiseau, O, Koch, W, Molecke, Martin Alan, Autrusson, Bruno, Pretzsch, Gunter Guido, Billone, M C, Lucero, Daniel A, Burtseva, T, Brucher, W, and Steyskal, Michele D. 2006. "Spent fuel sabotage aerosol test program :FY 2005-06 testing and aerosol data summary.". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/894323. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/894323.
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title = {Spent fuel sabotage aerosol test program :FY 2005-06 testing and aerosol data summary.},
author = {Gregson, Michael Warren and Brockmann, John E and Nolte, O and Loiseau, O and Koch, W and Molecke, Martin Alan and Autrusson, Bruno and Pretzsch, Gunter Guido and Billone, M C and Lucero, Daniel A and Burtseva, T and Brucher, W and Steyskal, Michele D},
abstractNote = {This multinational, multi-phase spent fuel sabotage test program is quantifying the aerosol particles produced when the products of a high energy density device (HEDD) interact with and explosively particulate test rodlets that contain pellets of either surrogate materials or actual spent fuel. This program has been underway for several years. This program provides source-term data that are relevant to some sabotage scenarios in relation to spent fuel transport and storage casks, and associated risk assessments. This document focuses on an updated description of the test program and test components for all work and plans made, or revised, primarily during FY 2005 and about the first two-thirds of FY 2006. It also serves as a program status report as of the end of May 2006. We provide details on the significant findings on aerosol results and observations from the recently completed Phase 2 surrogate material tests using cerium oxide ceramic pellets in test rodlets plus non-radioactive fission product dopants. Results include: respirable fractions produced; amounts, nuclide content, and produced particle size distributions and morphology; status on determination of the spent fuel ratio, SFR (the ratio of respirable particles from real spent fuel/respirables from surrogate spent fuel, measured under closely matched test conditions, in a contained test chamber); and, measurements of enhanced volatile fission product species sorption onto respirable particles. We discuss progress and results for the first three, recently performed Phase 3 tests using depleted uranium oxide, DUO{sub 2}, test rodlets. We will also review the status of preparations and the final Phase 4 tests in this program, using short rodlets containing actual spent fuel from U.S. PWR reactors, with both high- and lower-burnup fuel. These data plus testing results and design are tailored to support and guide, follow-on computer modeling of aerosol dispersal hazards and radiological consequence assessments. This spent fuel sabotage--aerosol test program, performed primarily at Sandia National Laboratories, with support provided by both the U.S. Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, had significant inputs from, and is strongly supported and coordinated by both the U.S. and international program participants in Germany, France, and the U.K., as part of the international Working Group for Sabotage Concerns of Transport and Storage Casks, WGSTSC.},
doi = {10.2172/894323},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006},
month = {Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006}
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