LMFBR spent fuel transport: conceptual design and partial safety analysis of a sodium-cooled cask

Technical Report · Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1972

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6780882· OSTI ID:6780882

Irvine, A R; Shappert, L B; Evans, J H; Canonico, D A

Conceptual designs for 6- and 18-subassembly casks are presented. The casks are intended for transport of LMFBR spent fuel which has decayed a minimum of 30 days. These casks use sodium as the primary coolant, an auxiliary shield coolant system in normal operation, heavy steel members as both gamma shield and structure, and a eutectic mixture of LiOH and NaOH as a neutron shield. The analysis indicates that there will be no leakage of coolant or fission products under normal or hypothetical accident conditions.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 6780882
• Report Number(s): ORNL-TM-3689
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
SPENT FUEL CASKS
DESIGN
SAFETY
COOLING SYSTEMS
LMFBR TYPE REACTORS
SODIUM
SPENT FUEL ELEMENTS
TRANSPORT
ALKALI METALS
BREEDER REACTORS
CASKS
CONTAINERS
ELEMENTS
EPITHERMAL REACTORS
FAST REACTORS
FBR TYPE REACTORS
FUEL ELEMENTS
LIQUID METAL COOLED REACTORS
METALS
REACTOR COMPONENTS
REACTORS
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