SEDS benchmark for fuel rod behaviour during dry storage – preliminary results
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F. Boldt
Abstract
One of the key aspects for the safety of extended dry storage of used nuclear fuel in casks is the prediction of the fuel rod behavior. A detailed and reliable prediction has to take into account the entire life span of the fuel rod: Service in reactor with the associated radiation history, wet storage in the fuel pool, loading and drying of the cask, and finally the in-cask dry storage itself. Enhancing existing fuel performance codes to include all these steps and the associated phenomena is an ongoing task tackled by several groups. To foster the communication between these groups a benchmark was proposed at the 2019 Safety of Extended Dry Storage (SEDS) workshop. The article at hand summarizes some of the preliminary results which were presented at the 2020 SEDS workshop.
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Articles in the same Issue
- CONTENTS
- CALENDAR OF EVENTS · VERANSTALTUNGSKALENDER
- Editorial
- Major sensitivities in FRAPCON-xt modeling of high burn-up fuel rods during dry storage to design and irradiation variables
- Dry storage modeling activities at PSI: implementation and testing of a creep model for dry storage
- SEDS benchmark for fuel rod behaviour during dry storage – preliminary results
- Investigation of the temporal rearrangement of zirconium hydride precipitates in cladding material for the interim and final storage period
- Overview of metal seal tests performed at BAM and implications for extended interim storage
- Comparison of numerical and semi-analytical analyses of temperature fields of loaded dry casks
- Analysis and evaluation of tomographic gamma scanning image reconstruction algorithm
- Design of Geiger Muller detector system for searching lost γ-ray source
- Note · Imprint
Articles in the same Issue
- CONTENTS
- CALENDAR OF EVENTS · VERANSTALTUNGSKALENDER
- Editorial
- Major sensitivities in FRAPCON-xt modeling of high burn-up fuel rods during dry storage to design and irradiation variables
- Dry storage modeling activities at PSI: implementation and testing of a creep model for dry storage
- SEDS benchmark for fuel rod behaviour during dry storage – preliminary results
- Investigation of the temporal rearrangement of zirconium hydride precipitates in cladding material for the interim and final storage period
- Overview of metal seal tests performed at BAM and implications for extended interim storage
- Comparison of numerical and semi-analytical analyses of temperature fields of loaded dry casks
- Analysis and evaluation of tomographic gamma scanning image reconstruction algorithm
- Design of Geiger Muller detector system for searching lost γ-ray source
- Note · Imprint
