Published May 1992 | Version v1
Report Metadata-only

Performance testing and analyses of the VSC-17 ventilated concrete cask

Creators

  • 1. Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
  • 2. EG and G Idaho, Inc., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)

Description

This document details performance test which was conducted on a Pacific Sierra Nuclear VSC-17 ventilated concrete storage cask configured for pressurized-water reactor (PWR) spent fuel. The performance test consisted of loading the VSC-17 cask with 17 canisters of consolidated PWR spent fuel from Virginia Power's Surry and Florida Power ampersand Light Turkey Point reactors. Cask surface, concrete, air channel surfaces, and fuel canister guide tube temperatures were measured, as were cask surface gamma and neutron dose rates. Testing was performed with vacuum, nitrogen, and helium backfill environments in a vertical cask orientation. Data on spent fuel integrity were also obtained

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Additional details

Additional titles

Subtitle (English)
Final report

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
169 p.
Report number
EPRI-TR--100305

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
23079131
Subject category
S42: ENGINEERING; S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
CASKS; CONCRETES; HEAT TRANSFER; HELIUM; HYDRAULICS; INERT ATMOSPHERE; NITROGEN; PERFORMANCE TESTING; PWR TYPE REACTORS; RADIATION DOSES; SHIELDING; SPENT FUEL STORAGE; SPENT FUELS; SURRY-1 REACTOR; SURRY-2 REACTOR; SURRY-3 REACTOR; SURRY-4 REACTOR; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TURKEY POINT-3 REACTOR; TURKEY POINT-4 REACTOR
Descriptors DEC
BUILDING MATERIALS; CONTAINERS; CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERES; ELEMENTS; ENERGY SOURCES; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FUELS; MATERIALS; NONMETALS; NUCLEAR FUELS; POWER REACTORS; RARE GASES; REACTOR MATERIALS; REACTORS; STORAGE; TESTING; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS

Optional Information

Funding organization
Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States).
Secondary number(s)
PNL--7839.