scholarly journals Investigation of the Thermal Performance of a Vertical Two-Phase Closed Thermosyphon as a Passive Cooling System for a Nuclear Reactor Spent Fuel Storage Pool

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 476-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukhsinun Hadi Kusuma ◽  
Nandy Putra ◽  
Anhar Riza Antariksawan ◽  
Susyadi ◽  
Ficky Augusta Imawan
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Yang ◽  
Xing Li ◽  
Jinrong Qiu ◽  
Lun Zhou

Abstract With the rapid development of nuclear energy, spent fuel will accumulate in large quantities. Spent fuel is generally cooled and placed in a storage pool, and then transported to a reprocessing plant at an appropriate time. Because spent fuel is content with a high level of radiation, spent fuel storage and transportation safety play important roles in the nuclear safety. Radiation dose safety are checked and validated using source analysis and Monte Carlo method to establish a radiation dose rate calculation model for PWR spent fuel storage pool and transport container. The calculation results show that the neutron and photon dose rates decrease exponentially with increase of water level under normal condition of storage pool. The attenuation multiples of neutron and photon dose rates are 4.64 and 1.59, respectively. According to radiation dose levels in different water height situations, spent fuel pool under loss of coolant accident can be divides into five workplaces. They are supervision zone, regular zone, intermittent zone, restricted zone and radiation zone. Under normal condition of transport container, the dose rates at the surface of the container and at a distance of 1 m from the surface are 0.1759 mSv/h and 0.0732 mSv/h, respectively. The dose rates decrease with the increasing radius of break accident, and dose rate at the surface of the transport container is 0.278 mSv/h when the break radius is 20 cm. Transport container conforms to the radiation safety standards of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This study can provide some reference for radiation safety analysis of spent fuel storage and transportation.


2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Massoud ◽  
O.H. Sallam ◽  
E. Amin

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