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http://dx.doi.org/10.7734/COSEIK.2012.25.1.037

A Structural Analysis of the SNF(Spent Nuclear Fuel) Disposal Canister with the SNF Basket Section Shape Change for the Pressurized Water Reactor(PWR)  

Kwon, Young-Joo (홍익대학교 기계정보공학과)
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Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea / v.25, no.1, 2012 , pp. 37-49 More about this Journal
Abstract
A structural model of the SNF(spent nuclear fuel) disposal canister for the PWR(pressurized water reactor) for about 10,000 years long term deposition at a 500m deep granitic bedrock repository has been developed through various structural safety evaluations. The SNF disposal baskets of this canister model have the array type whose four square cross section baskets stand parallel to each other and symmetrically with respect to the center of the canister section. However, whether this developed structural model of the SNF disposal canister is optimal is not determinable yet. Especially, there is still a problem in weight-reduction of the canister. The cross section shape of the SNF basket should be changed to solve this problem. There are two ways in changing the cross section shape of the SNF basket; the one is to rotate the cross section itself and the other is to change the cross section shape as other shape different from the square cross section. The previous study shows that the canister with $30{\sim}35^{\circ}$ rotated basket array is structurally more stable than the canister with un-rotated parallel basket array. However, whether this canister with rotated basket array is optimal is not either determinable as yet, because it is not revealed that the canister with other cross section different from the square cross section is structurally more stable than other canisters. Therefore, the structural analysis of the SNF disposal canister with other cross section shape which is also symmetric with respect to the canister center planes is very necessary. The structural analysis of the canister with various cross section shape basket array in which each basket is arrayed symmetrically with respect to the center planes is carried out in this paper. The structural analysis result shows that the SNF disposal canister with circular cross section shape baskets located symmetrically with respect to the center of the canister section is structurally more stable than the previously developed SNF disposal canister with the parallel basket array.
Keywords
pressurized water reactor; spent nuclear fuel disposal canister; safety evaluation; spent nuclear fuel basket; square cross section shape basket; cross section shape change;
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