Burnup credit application in criticality analysis of storage casks with spent RBMK-1500 nuclear fuel

Nuclear criticality safety analysis of two types of the casks CASTOR RBMK-1500 and CONSTOR RBMK-1500 was performed using the SCALE 4.3 computer code system. These casks are planned for an interim dry storage of spent nuclear fuel at Ignalina nuclear power plant. Effective neutron multiplication factor keff was calculated for different density of the water inside the casks for unfavorable operational cases and for assumed hypothetical accident conditions when fuel in the system is fresh and fuel is depleted (i.e. burnup credit taken into account). Results show that for all cases effective neutron multiplication factor keff is less then allowable value 0.95. (author)