Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8067327 | Annals of Nuclear Energy | 2017 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
In this paper, thermal analysis of German CASTOR RBMK-1500 casks for long-term (up to 300Â years) storage of spent nuclear fuel at the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant was performed. The numerical modeling code ALGOR (USA) which allows modeling temperature and heat flux distributions inside a cask (in fuel load) and in a cask body, was used. The modeling was performed for a cask in an open storage facility in summer and winter conditions. A detailed analysis was performed including previous results about casks with just loaded fuel (pre-stored in water pools for 5Â years) and after 50Â years of interim cask storage. Also, a local sensitivity analysis of parameters that mostly influence the temperature distribution was performed.
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Authors
R. Poškas, V. Šimonis, P. Poškas, A. Sirvydas,