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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Dry Cask Storage"”.
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Physics and engineering aspects of South Africa's proposed dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel
… the 1970s. South Africa has planned an interim dry storage facility for the spent nuclear fuel to be established at the existing Koeberg power station. The interim dry storage facility will make use of HI-STAR 100 multi-purpose casks to store spent nuclear fuel until the country decides on final …
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Data assimilation for verification of dry storage cask content
Dry cask storage is a method for the interim storage of spent fuel assemblies. These assemblies contain fissile isotopes of uranium and plutonium which can present a proliferation concern, and consequently there is a need for methods which can verify dry cask content. The loading (or partial …
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On selection and operation of an international interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel
… concept of an intermediate nuclear spent fuel storage facility has been introduced as a method of temporarily storing the spent fuel in a central location until long-term disposal of the spent nuclear fuel is made available. General criteria that can be used to compare potential international …
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Energy Harvesting Opportunities Throughout the Nuclear Power Cycle for Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Nodes
… thermal and radiation energy from spent fuel in dry cask storage. Thermal energy harvesters for the primary and secondary coolant loops are outlined, and experimental analysis done on their longevity in high-radiation environments is discussed. A vibrational energy harvester for large rotating …
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COMSOL finite-element analysis : residual stress measurement of representative 304L/308L weld in spent fuel storage containers
The ultimate storage destination for spent nuclear fuel in the United States is currently undecided. Spent fuel will be stored indefinitely in dry cask storage systems typically located on-site at the reactor or at a dedicated independent spent fuel storage installation (ISFSI). Since these …
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Crash Analysis of Degraded Concrete Containment Structures
Dry storage casks are composite structures made of an inner steel liner and a concrete outerpack that houses the basket of the spent nuclear fuel bundle. The concrete of dry cask structures will degrade due to the natural aging and the environmental effect shrinkage, creep, heat transfer, moisture …
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Investigation of the mechanical behavior of rim/blister structure hydride phases in Zircaloy-4 by utilizing high energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction
… cracking (DHC) phenomenon which occurs during storage of used nuclear fuel (UNF). DHC is a time-dependent subcritical crack growth mechanism that can be induced by tensile stress hoop stress within the fuel cladding, even when this hoop stress is lower than the yield stress of the cladding …
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Accelerated Alkali-Silica Reaction and Corrosion of Reinforcing Steel in Concrete: Application on Dry Casks
… at the structural level, a vertical concrete dry cask for storage of nuclear waste was chosen as the case study. In this case study, three 1/3-scale dry casks were subjected to accelerated ASR and corrosion with the addition of chemicals to the mixture and their effect was measured over …
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Non-destructive inspection of spent fuel casks through 14.1 MeV neutron interrogation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01