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slides - Cook Nuclear Plant, Dry Cask Loading & Storage
slides - Cook Nuclear Plant, Dry Cask Loading & Storage
Presented at the NEI Used Fuel Management Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, May 7-9, 2013
Validation of important fission product evaluations through CERES integral benchmarks
Validation of important fission product evaluations through CERES integral benchmarks
Optimization of energy resources suggests increased fuel residence in reactor cores and hence improved
fission product evaluations are required. For thermal reactors the fission product cross sections in the JEF2.2 and
JEFF3.1 libraries plus new evaluations from WPEC23 are assessed through modelling the CERES experiment in
the DIMPLE reactor. The analysis uses the lattice code WIMS10. Cross sections for 12 nuclides are assessed. The
thermal cross section and low energy resonance data for 147,152Sm and 155Gd are accurate to within 4%. Similar data
slides - Dry Storage Cask Thermal Analyses
slides - Dry Storage Cask Thermal Analyses
Presented at the NEI Used Fuel Management Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, May 7-9, 2013
slides - LACBWR Dry Cask Storage
slides - LACBWR Dry Cask Storage
Presented at the NEI Used Fuel Management Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, May 7-9, 2013
slides - Cumulative Impact of Regulatory Actions Dry Fuel Storage
slides - Cumulative Impact of Regulatory Actions Dry Fuel Storage
Presented at the NEI Used Fuel Management Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, May 7-9, 2013
Considerations for Disposition of Dry Cask Storage System Materials at End of Storage System Life
Considerations for Disposition of Dry Cask Storage System Materials at End of Storage System Life
Dry cask storage systems are deployed at nuclear power plants for used nuclear fuel (UNF)
Presentation made at IAEA on Dry Storage System Aging Management
Presentation made at IAEA on Dry Storage System Aging Management
Presentation made at International Conference on The Management of Spent Nuclear Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors, An Integrated approach to the Back-End of the Fuel Cycle (IAEA-CN-226). The purpose of the conference was to highlight the importance of an integrated long-term approach to the management of spent fuel from nuclear power reactors.
Research to Support Expansion of U.S. Regulatory Position on Burnup Credit for Transport and Storage Casks
Research to Support Expansion of U.S. Regulatory Position on Burnup Credit for Transport and Storage Casks
In 1999, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U.S. NRC) initiated a research program
to support the development of technical bases and guidance that would facilitate the implementation of burnup
credit into licensing activities for transport and dry cask storage. This paper reviews the following major areas of
investigation: (1) specification of axial burnup profiles, (2) assumption on cooling time, (3) allowance for
assemblies with fixed and removable neutron absorbers, (4) the need for a burnup margin for fuel with initial
Dry Cask Storage and Transportation Burnup Credit
Dry Cask Storage and Transportation Burnup Credit
Fission Product Experiment Program: Validation and Calculational Analysis
Fission Product Experiment Program: Validation and Calculational Analysis
From 1998 to 2004, a series of critical experiments referred to as the fission product (FP) experimental program was performed at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique Valduc research facility. The experiments were designed by Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN) and funded by AREVA NC and IRSN within the French program supporting development of a technical basis for burnup credit validation.
Issues for Effective Implementation of Burnup Credit
Issues for Effective Implementation of Burnup Credit
In the United States, burnup credit has been used in the criticality safety evaluation for storage pools at
pressurized water reactors (PWRs) and considerable work has been performed to lay the foundation for use of
burnup credit in dry storage and transport cask applications and permanent disposal applications. Many of the
technical issues related to the basic physics phenomena and parameters of importance are similar in each of these
applications. However, the nuclear fuel cycle in the United States has never been fully integrated and the
Dry Cask Storage of Nuclear Spent Fuel
Dry Cask Storage of Nuclear Spent Fuel
Dry Cask Storage of Nuclear Spent Fuel
Dry Cask Storage of Nuclear Spent Fuel
This presentation was given by Earl Easton at the 2011 National State Liaison Officers Conference in Bethesda, MD.
The presentation highlights the current state of spent nuclear fuel as well as the progress toward its ultimate disposal.
slides - Exelon Dry Cask Storage Program, 2012 Campaign Summary
slides - Exelon Dry Cask Storage Program, 2012 Campaign Summary
Presented at the NEI Used Fuel Management Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, May 7-9, 2013