Published April 1987
| Version v1
Report
Behaviour of RBMK spent fuel assemblies in water cooled pools
Creators
- 1. Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant (USSR)
- 2. All-Union Project and Research Inst. of Complex Power Technology, Leningrad (USSR)
Description
This paper deals with spent fuel storage reliability in cooling pools. The behaviour of spent fuel assemblies with burn-up from 1686 to 18,720 MWd/tU and with 8-year storage period is studied. Assessments of corrosion rate values for spent fuel assembly structural materials in pool storage are made. The mechanical properties in storage are found to be practically unchanged. It is shown that corrosion products deposition on fuel assembly surfaces is the source of radioactive contamination of the pool. Conclusion is made that spent fuel long-term storage in cooling pools and reuse of underirradiated fuel assemblies in RBMK reactors are possible. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Long term wet spent nuclear fuel storage
- Imprint Pagination
- 233 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 113-121.
- Report number
- IAEA-TECDOC--418
Conference
- Title
- Technical committee meeting on behaviour of used fuel assemblies and storage equipment at long term wet storage conditions.
- Dates
- 26-30 May 1986.
- Place
- Leningrad (USSR).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 18090465
- Subject category
- S42: ENGINEERING;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BURNUP; COOLING; CORROSION; DEPOSITION; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; FUEL STORAGE POOLS; LWGR TYPE REACTORS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; RELIABILITY; SPENT FUEL STORAGE; SPENT FUELS; SURFACE CONTAMINATION
- Descriptors DEC
- CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CONTAMINATION; ENERGY SOURCES; FUELS; GRAPHITE MODERATED REACTORS; MATERIALS; NUCLEAR FUELS; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; STORAGE; WATER COOLED REACTORS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 13 refs, 2 figs, 2 tabs.