• Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.315-330
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• 2018

A subcritical facility must ensure nuclear criticality safety under all circumstances. For this purpose, it is essential to have a procedure to validate that calculated values do not exceed upper subcritical limit (USL), determined by quantifying the bias and uncertainty. However, there are several validation methodologies of nuclear criticality safety and these can yield different USL. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the validity of the methodologies to establish one methodology that can provide the most appropriate USL. In this study, two documents, a guide for validation of nuclear criticality safety calculational methodology (NUREG/CR-6698) and a criticality benchmark guide for light water reactor fuel in transport and storage package (NUREG/CR-6361), are compared and analyzed. In particular, the methodology in NUREG/CR-6361 is applied to the USLSTATS code. However, the analysis results show that the methodology in NUREG/CR-6698 is more appropriate, for several reasons. This is applied to decision of USL to design casks using SCALE code version 6.1.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05b
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• pp.497-502
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• 1998

후행핵연료주기 정책 미결정국형 사용후핵연료 관리기술 개발을 위하여 자원으로서 가치가 있는 PWR 사용후핵연료를 대상으로 새로운 관리개념을 설정하였으며 본 개념을 뒷받침하는 요소기술들에 대한 비방사성 검증시험을 수행하였다. 본 논문에서는 이와 관련한 사용후핵연료 차세대관리 공정개념을 소개하고 모의 PWR 사용후핵연료의 금속전환 시험결과와 금속전환체의 관리상에 필수적으로 검토되어야할 핵임계안전성과 열안전성에 대한 예비해석 결과를 소개코자 한다.