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Thermal analysis of certain accident conditions of dry spent nuclear fuel storage

  • Alyokhina, Svitlana (A. Podgorny Institute of Mechanical Engineering Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
  • Received : 2017.11.01
  • Accepted : 2018.03.04
  • Published : 2018.06.25
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Abstract

Thermal analysis of accident conditions is an important problem during safety assessment of the dry spent nuclear fuel storage facilities. Thermal aspects of accident conditions with channel blockage of ventilated storage containers are considered in this article. Analysis of flow structure inside ventilated containers is carried out by numerical simulation. The main mechanisms of heat and mass transfer, which take part in spent nuclear fuel cooling, were detected. Classification of accidents on the basis of their influence on the maximum temperatures inside storage casks is proposed.

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