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http://dx.doi.org/10.7733/jnfcwt.2016.14.4.411

The Evaluation of Minimum Cooling Period for Loading of PWR Spent Nuclear Fuel of a Dual Purpose Metal Cask  

Dho, Ho-Seog (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency)
Kim, Tae-Man (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency)
Cho, Chun-Hyung (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency)
Publication Information
Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT) / v.14, no.4, 2016 , pp. 411-422 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, because the wet pool storage facilities of NPPs in Korea has become saturated, there has been much active R&D on an interim dry storage system using a transportation and storage cask. Generally, the shielding evaluation for the design of a spent fuel transportation and storage cask is performed by the design basis fuel, which selects the most conservative fuel among the fuels to be loaded into the cask. However, the loading of actual spent fuel into the transportation metal cask is not limited to the design basis fuel used in the shielding evaluation; the loading feasibility of actual spent fuel is determined by the shielding evaluation that considers the characteristics of the initial enrichment, the maximum burnup and the minimum cooling period. This study describes a shielding analysis method for determining the minimum cooling period of spent fuel that meets the domestic transportation standard of the dual purpose metal cask. In particular, the spent fuel of 3.0~4.5wt% initial enrichment, which has a large amount of release, was evaluated by segmented shielding calculations for efficient improvement of the results. The shielding evaluation revealed that about 81% of generated spent fuel from the domestic nuclear power plants until 2008 could be transported by the dual purpose metal cask. The results of this study will be helpful in establishing a technical basis for developing operating procedures for transportation of the dual purpose metal cask.
Keywords
Spent nuclear fuel; Dual purpose metal cask; Initial enrichment; Burnup; Minimum cooling period;
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