spent fuel
Structural Integrity Evaluation of Spent Fuel Storage Racks for HANARO
... the spent fuel storage racks and modules under a seismic load has been ...the spent fuel storage racks and modules have been successfully designed and ...
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The Management of Used (Spent) Fuel and High Level Waste in South Africa
... of spent fuel and radioactive waste, for this reason the country is a contracting party to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Nuclear Fuel ...
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Comparative Analysis of VVER 1000 Westinghouse and TVEL Spent Fuel Capability
... VVER-1000 spent fuel isotopic composition caused by different operational conditions, such as the presence or absence of absorber rod – control rod cluster (CR) in guide tubes, oscillating the concentration ...
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International Approaches to Spent Fuel Management: Challenges and Opportunities
... Spent fuel management in many European nations is considered a ‘European ...to spent fuel management and lay the ground work for the establishment of the ...
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Seismic Qualification of Spent Fuel Storage Stacks (K011)
... The seismic qualification of the structure is achieved by performing a seismic analysis of the mathematical models of the spent fuel stacks for a Design Basis Earthquake (DBE). For typical CANDU sites the ...
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EFFECT OF THE FLUID COUPLING BETWEEN THE SPENT FUEL STORAGE RACK AND THE FLOOR
... support leg with the vertical hydrodynamic coupling are significantly reduced, as compared to those without vertical hydrodynamic coupling. As shown in Case 1, due to the high coefficient of friction, the relative high ...
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Overview of Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installations (ISFSIs) in the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) and Wabash Valley Seismic Zone (WVSZ)
... for Spent Fuel Dry Storage Facility, NUREG-1567 provide the NRC staff guidance in reviewing the license applications, and suggest that the storage cask be designed not to tip-over for all man-made events ...
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Analysis of Raft Foundations for Spent Fuel Pool in Nuclear Facilities
... Foundation rafts are analysed as a plate on elastic foundation with the representation of the foundation media using the Winkler idealisation i.e. series of linear uncoupled springs. The elastic constant of the Winkler ...
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Stability Analysis of Storage of Spent fuel in Stack of Trays in Pool
... The spent fuel bundles from Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) are stored under water in spent fuel storage facilities in stacks of 20 to 30 trays inside the water depth of 6-7 ...of ...
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Rattling Analysis of Spent fuel Subassemblies of PFBR under Seismic Excitations
... the spent subassemblies (SA) are taken out of the reactor during refuelling are stored in spent fuel storage ...the fuel subassemblies located in the central portion of the rack compared to ...
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Proposal Sites for Spent Fuel Disposal in Egypt by Using GIS Program
... with spent fuel and high level waste disposal, as will be seen, deep borehole disposal is a promising ...hand spent fuel from the research reactor in Egypt stored near the reactor waiting for ...
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Spent fuel pool seismic integrity evaluations
... a fuel building (38%), or a reactor/containment building ...The spent fuel storage pools at BWR Mark I & II sites are typically located within the BWR reactor building at an elevation above ...
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Seismic Response Analysis of a Freestanding Model of Spent Fuel Storage Cask
... The seismic responses of the spent fuel storage cask are performed for various sliding friction coefficients and seismic acceleration levels. The sliding distance is increased as the seismic input level is ...
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Seismic Stability Analysis for an In-Bay Worktable for Spent Fuel Dry Storage
... CANDU ® reactors designed in Canada are built and operated worldwide to produce electricity economically with no emission of green house gases. In this paper, a seismic stability analysis for an in-bay stainless steel ...
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The Gamma Ray Transmission Factor of Spent Fuel
... Analyzing the gamma spectra by GammaVision Ver5.1, net and background countsof gamma peaks for each spent fuel type can be obtained easily (Table 2). Using the values of the count, live time, branching ...
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Seismic Analysis of Free-Standing Dry Storage Cask for Spent Fuel
... as spent fuel and damaged control rods, is a critical issue in the operation of nuclear power ...of spent are necessary prior to the operation of the final disposal, and usually two steps are ...
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A Study on the Impact and Seismic Characteristics for Spent Fuel Storage and Transport Cask by Irradiation Effects
... Therefore, the effects of the irradiation for impact and seismic characteristics of the spent fuel storage and transport cask should be studied because the spent [r] ...
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Development of a Dry Storage Cask for PWR Spent Fuel
... four spent fuel assemblies generated from pressurized water reactors for at-reactor or away-from-reactor interim storage facility in ...dry spent fuel storage ...PWR spent fuel, ...
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Evaluation and Repair of Spent Fuel Dry Storage Structures
... contain spent fuel. The heat from the fuel in the canisters most likely helps reduce the moisture content in the concrete, which has the effect of limiting one of the principal factors controlling ...
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Upgrading of WWER-1000 NPP Safety on Spent Fuel Transportation (J106)
... Preliminary analysis has shown that in case of dropping down of a Cask from a height of 38.05 m on a floor of transportation corridor shall definitely cause more than 3 times overloadin[r] ...
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