Open AccessCriticality safety evaluation report for spent nuclear fuelprocessing and storage facilities
Author(s) -
Fluor Daniel Hanford Schwinkendorf K.N.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/324942
Subject(s) - scrap , criticality , nuclear criticality safety , spent nuclear fuel , nuclear engineering , radioactive waste , waste management , environmental science , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , nuclear physics
This criticality evaluation is for Spent N Reactor fuel unloaded from the existing canisters in both KE and KW Basins, and loaded into multiple canister overpack (MCO) containers with specially- built baskets containing either 54 Mark IV or 48 Mark IA fuel assemblies. The criticality evaluations include loading baskets into the MCO/Cask, operations at the Cold Vacuum Drying Facility (CVDF), and storage in the Canister Storage Building (CSB). Many conservatisms have been built into this analysis, the primary one being the selection of the k{sub eff} @ 0.95 criticality safety limit
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