Abstract
A mock up spent fuel canister test section is designed and built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to support the R&D efforts on the direct disposal of dual purpose spent fuel canisters. The objective of the experimental testing is to investigate feasibility and to identify the unknown to gain confidence in the filing process and to validate computational models designed to simulate the process. The scope of the initial studies is to validate single-physics scaled testing of flow simulation to determine injectability, void filling, filling time, and filling method (gravity vs. pump).
Original language | English |
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Pages | 47-54 |
Number of pages | 8 |
State | Published - 2019 |
Event | 17th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference, IHLRWM 2019 - Knoxville, United States Duration: Apr 14 2019 → Apr 18 2019 |
Conference
Conference | 17th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference, IHLRWM 2019 |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Knoxville |
Period | 04/14/19 → 04/18/19 |
Funding
+This is a technical paper that does not take into account the contractual limitations under the Standard Contract for Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and/or High-Level Radioactive Waste (Standard Contract) (10 CFR Part 961). Under the provisions of the Standard Contract, DOE does not consider spent nuclear fuel in multi-assembly canisters to be an acceptable waste form, absent a mutually agreed to contract amendment. To the extent discussions or recommendations in this presentation conflict with the provisions of the Standard Contract, the Standard Contract provisions prevail. ∗ This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-