Spent fuel sabotage test program, characterization of aerosol dispersal : technical review and analysis supplement.

Technical Report · Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/974407· OSTI ID:974407

Durbin, Samuel G; Lindgren, Eric Richard

This project seeks to provide vital data required to assess the consequences of a terrorist attack on a spent fuel transportation cask. One such attack scenario involves the use of conical shaped charges (CSC), which are capable of damaging a spent fuel transportation cask. In the event of such an attack, the amount of radioactivity that may be released as respirable aerosols is not known with great certainty. Research to date has focused on measuring the aerosol release from single short surrogate fuel rodlets subjected to attack by a small CSC device in various aerosol chamber designs. The last series of three experiments tested surrogate fuel rodlets made with depleted uranium oxide ceramic pellets in a specially designed double chamber aerosol containment apparatus. This robust testing apparatus was designed to prevent any radioactive release and allow high level radioactive waste disposal of the entire apparatus following testing of actual spent fuel rodlets as proposed. DOE and Sandia reviews of the project to date identified a number of issues. The purpose of this supplemental report is to address and document the DOE review comments and to resolve the issues identified in the Sandia technical review.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 974407
• Report Number(s): SAND2009-4484; TRN: US1002714
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
AEROSOLS
CERAMICS
CHEMICAL EXPLOSIVES
CONTAINMENT
DEPLETED URANIUM
OXIDES
PELLETS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIOACTIVITY
SABOTAGE
SPENT FUELS
TESTING
Terrorist threats.
Terrorism.
Spent fuel casks-Vulnerability.