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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
Robert P. Sandoval, Robert E. Einziger, Hans Jordan, Anthony P. Malinauskas, Walter J. Mings
Nuclear Technology | Volume 98 | Number 2 | May 1992 | Pages 196-206
Technical Paper | Radioactive Waste Management | doi.org/10.13182/NT92-A34675
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methodology is developed to relate U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 10, Part 71 (10CFR71) containment requirements to leak rates for the special case in which the only radioactive species having a potential for escape from the cask is that associated with debris (”crud“) contained on the fuel assemblies being transported. The methodology accounts for the characteristics of the crud and for attenuation of the gas-borne crud particulates once they become suspended within the cask. Calculations are performed for typical spent-fuel transport cask geometries and the normal and accident conditions prescribed in 10CFR71. The most current published data are used for crud composition and structure, specific activity, spallation mechanics and fractions, and crud particle size. The containment criteria leak rates are calculated assuming 5-yr-old spent fuel. In each accident case, the containment leak rate criteria are well in excess of 10 cm3/s. Under normal conditions of transport, the regulatory containment requirements are met by leak rates ranging from 1.5 × 10 -3 cm3/s to 1.5 × 10-4 cm3/s for the transport of boiling water reactor fuel assemblies and from 1.8 × 10-2 cm3/s to 1.3 × 10-3 cm3/s for pressurized water reactor fuel assemblies. The calculated leak rates are most sensitive to the cask design, type of fuel, and particle size distribution. Conservatism of the limiting leak rates is discussed.