Zhe HONG, Shangui ZHAO, Min ZHANG, et al. Calculation study on the criticality of dry storage facilities for spent fuel[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2016, 39(7): 070601
DOI:
Zhe HONG, Shangui ZHAO, Min ZHANG, et al. Calculation study on the criticality of dry storage facilities for spent fuel[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2016, 39(7): 070601 DOI: 10.11889/j.0253-3219.2016.hjs.39.070601.
Calculation study on the criticality of dry storage facilities for spent fuel
The plight of a large number of spent fuel accumulation can be effectively alleviated by constructing spent fuel dry storage facilities. Having been widely adopted in foreign countries
spent fuel dry storage technology has not yet been studied in our country.
Purpose:
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The aim is to study the criticality safety of spent fuel dry storage facility.
Methods:
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The research object is HI-STORM 100 spent fuel dry storage facility internal loading AFA-3G fuel assembly in this paper. Using the MCNP (Monte Carlo N Particle Transport Code) 4C code
criticality safety was studied by changing the density of the water inside and outside of the storage facilities.
Results:
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The results indicate that
k
eff
is far below 0.93 in the normal condition
which is safety. But there would be some problems if the water density is greater than 0.8 g·cm
-3
under accident condition. Nuclides composition based on burnup credit can be got by using ORIGEN-ARP code. And then calculation study on the critical safety of dry storage facilities in the same model was carried out.
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