scholarly journals AFR Spent Fuel Storage Program. Technical progress report, April 1980-June 1980

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Author(s):  
Daogang Lu ◽  
Yu Liu ◽  
Shu Zheng

Free standing spent fuel storage racks are submerged in water contained with spent fuel pool. During a postulated earthquake, the water surrounding the racks is accelerated and the so-called fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is significantly induced between water, racks and the pool walls[1]. The added mass is an important input parameter for the dynamic structural analysis of the spent fuel storage rack under earthquake[2]. The spent fuel storage rack is different even for the same vendors. Some rack are designed as the honeycomb construction, others are designed as the end-tube-connection construction. Therefore, the added mass for those racks have to be measured for the new rack’s design. More importantly, the added mass is influenced by the layout of the rack in the spent fuel pool. In this paper, an experiment is carried out to measure the added mass by free vibration test. The measured fluid force of the rack is analyzed by Fourier analysis to derive its vibration frequency. The added mass is then evaluated by the vibration frequency in the air and water. Moreover, a two dimensional CFD model of the spent fuel rack immersed in the water tank is built. The fluid force is obtained by a transient analysis with the help of dynamics mesh method.


2006 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. I. Kopeikin ◽  
L. A. Mikaelyan ◽  
V. V. Sinev

1986 ◽  
Vol 137 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Peehs ◽  
J. Fleisch

1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 647-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Y. Hwang ◽  
L. E. Efferding

A thermal analysis evaluation is presented of a nuclear spent fuel dry storage cask designed by the Westinghouse Nuclear Components Division. The cask is designed to provide passive cooling of 24 Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) spent fuel assemblies for a storage period of at least 20 years at a nuclear utility site (Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation). A comparison is presented between analytical predictions and experimental results for a demonstration cask built by Westinghouse and tested under a joint program with the Department of Energy and Virginia Power Company. Demonstration testing with nuclear spent fuel assemblies was performed on a cask configuration designed to store 24 intact spent fuel assemblies or canisters containing fuel consolidated from 48 assemblies.


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