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Spent fuel transfer project completed at INL
Work crews at Idaho National Laboratory have transferred 40 spent nuclear fuel canisters into long-term storage vaults, the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has reported.
Masato Uchita, Takayuki Miyagawa, Koji Dozaki (JAPC), Yoshitaka Chikazawa, Shigenobu Kubo, Hiroki Hayafune (JAEA), Tetsuji Suzuno, Tsuyoshi Fukasawa, Yoshio Kamishima (Mitsubishi FBR Systems, Inc.), Satoshi Fujita (Tokyo Denki Univ)
Proceedings | 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP 2018) | Charlotte, NC, April 8-11, 2018 | Pages 380-386
The pool-type reactor encloses primary pumps and IHXs located around the core barrel in a reactor vessel. Consequently, the reactor vessel diameter tends to be larger than that of loop-type reactor. From the viewpoint of commercialization in the future, the vessel diameter and its weight including sodium coolant will increase further. Moreover, the seismic loading conditions imposed on design works of the SFR concept are very severe for large vessel. For the heavy weight large vessel under severe seismic conditions, the buckling evaluation on the cylindrical part of the vessel is significant for a feasibility study. In this paper, the prospects are described in terms of seismic design to prevent buckling of the reactor vessel based on parameter studies with diameters of the vessel. In addition, the seismic isolation device which will be effective as a countermeasure is proposed in order to secure a margin against buckling of a large reactor vessel.