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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.
Sergey I. Belousov, Krassimira D. Ilieva, Stoyan Y. Antonov
Nuclear Technology | Volume 111 | Number 2 | August 1995 | Pages 270-274
Technical Paper | Nuclear Criticality Safety Special / Material | doi.org/10.13182/NT95-A35136
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The neutron flux values at the sites important for the pressure vessels of the VVER-1000 and VVER-440 reactors have been calculated by the three-dimensional TORT code and the synthesis method approximation. The synthesis method is widely used now for neutron fluence routine calculations in metal embrittlement surveillance. The three-dimensional neutron flux evaluation by the synthesis method is based on the two-dimensional and one-dimensional solutions of the transport equation. The comparison of the results obtained by both methods confirms the good consistency within 3% for integral neutron flux with energy >0.5 MeV, used for metal damage estimation, according to Russian reactor standards. Further investigations on the calculation validity will be based on comparisons with measurements of the threshold detector activities, monitored in the air shell behind the reactor pressure vessels of the Kozloduy nuclear power plant.