Preliminary design report: Babcock and Wilcox BR-100 100-ton rail/barge spent fuel shipping cask

Technical Report · Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6750935· OSTI ID:6750935

The purpose of this document is to provide information on burnup credit as applied to the preliminary design of the BR-100 shipping cask. There is a brief description of the preliminary basket design and the features used to maintain a critically safe system. Following the basket description is a discussion of various criticality analyses used to evaluate burnup credit. The results from these analyses are then reviewed in the perspective of fuel burnups expected to be shipped to either the final repository or a Monitored Retrievable Storage (MRS) facility. The hurdles to employing burnup credit in the certification of any cask are then outlines and reviewed. the last section gives conclusions reached as to burnup credit for the BR-100 cask, based on our analyses and experience. All information in this study refers to the cask configured to transport PWR fuel. Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) fuel satisfies the criticality requirements so that burnup credit is not needed. All calculations generated in the preparation of this report were based upon the preliminary design which will be optimized during the final design. 8 refs., 19 figs., 16 tabs.

• Research Organization: B and W Fuel Co., Lynchburg, VA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/RW
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-88ID12701
• OSTI ID: 6750935
• Report Number(s): DOE/ID/12701-1-Vol.2; BW-51-1177082-02-Vol.2; ON: DE90013717; TRN: 90-028649
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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