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The SPIZWURZ project - Experimental investigations and modeling of the behavior of hydrogen in zirconium alloys under long-term dry storage conditions

  • Mirco Grosse;Felix Boldt;Michel Herm;Conrado Roessger;Juri Stuckert;Sarah Weick;Daniel Nahm
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.56 no.3
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    • pp.824-831
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    • 2024
  • In order to investigate the occurring processes during long-term dry storage of spent fuel assemblies, a joined project called SPIZWURZ, between the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Gesellschaft für Anlagen-und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS), was started. Aim of the SPIZWURZ project is the determination and quantification of the influence of texture and elastic strain on diffusion and solubility of hydrogen in three different zirconium alloys used in western Europe during a long-term cooling transient (1 K/d) starting at 400 ℃. The strain in the cladding of an irradiated spent fuel rod shall be measured. Models predicting the formation of radial oriented hydrides will be validated, improved, and implemented in the GRS fuel rod performance code TESPA-ROD. This paper describes the SPIZWURZ project and already obtained first results.

A Calculation of Effective Dose Equivalent from Data of Environmental Monitoring around the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center (Karlsruhe 원자력연구소 주변의 환경방사능 측정자료로부터 실효선량당량계산)

  • Lee, Chang-Woo;Lee, Jeong-Ho;Wicke, A.
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.75-85
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    • 1990
  • The dose calculations were carried out using environmental montoring data around Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center(KfK). Ingestion of plant foods was the most important pathway, and the K-40 and Pb-210 natural radioisotopes in food were the most effective radiation source to man. The dose received from artificial nuclides were mostly emitted by gamma irradiation of Cs-134 and Cs-137 deposited on the ground. The effective dose equivalent in the KfK environment was far less than the dose equivalent limit recommended by ICRP.

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