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DOE on track to deliver high-burnup SNF to Idaho by 2027
The Department of Energy said it anticipated delivering a research cask of high-burnup spent nuclear fuel from Dominion Energy’s North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia to Idaho National Laboratory by fall 2027. The planned shipment is part of the High Burnup Dry Storage Research Project being conducted by the DOE with the Electric Power Research Institute.
As preparations continue, the DOE said it is working closely with federal agencies as well as tribal and state governments along potential transportation routes to ensure safety, transparency, and readiness every step of the way.
Watch the DOE’s latest video outlining the project here.
Seong Gu Kim, Maolong Liu, Youho Lee (Univ of New Mexico), Jeong Ik Lee (KAIST)
Proceedings | Advances in Thermal Hydraulics 2018 | Orlando, FL, November 11-15, 2018 | Pages 331-342
Fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactor (FHR) is one of the Gen IV nuclear systems. It utilizes small spherical type fuel with 30mm diameter, and the core is filled with numerous pebbles. The authors developed a simple code that generates randomly-packed spherical fuels inside the cylindrical core. The fluid domain was generated and converted to perform the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis to figure out the local heat transfer coefficient of pebble-bed fuels. To ensure promising CFD analysis model the authors examined sensitive parameters – the number of pebbles, grid size and gap size and turbulence models. Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) was performed for the selection of the turbulence model with face-centered cubic (FCC) single channel model. As a result, k-omega Shear Stress Transport (SST) with gamma transition model is selected as a turbulence model for randomly-packed pebble’s CFD analysis. The result shows that the pebble’s local heat transfer coefficient has a Gaussian distribution with average and standard deviation. Furthermore, the authors propose a new Nusselt number correlation for the randomly-packed pebble bed reactor with FLiBe coolant. The result leads to a conclusion that the thermal-hydraulic performance of fuel has a statistical distribution and it will have the effect on the robustness of fuel material and design criteria of safety systems.