IDENTIFICATION OF THE FUEL ROD CLADDING DESTRUCTION FROM THE CHANGE OF THE SNF STORAGE CASKS RADIATION-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

IDENTIFICATION OF THE FUEL ROD CLADDING DESTRUCTION FROM THE CHANGE OF THE SNF STORAGE CASKS RADIATION

Published:2020-09-21 Issue: Volume: Page:111-119
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Rudychev V.G.,Azarenkov N.A.,Girka I.O.,Rudychev Y.V.

Abstract

Two options for changing the distribution of spent nuclear fuel due to the possible destruction of the cladding of fuel rods, which causes a change in radiation outside the cask, are considered for VSC-24 casks used for storage of spent nuclear fuel by the dry method. The eﬀect of height reduction due to the destruction of the fuel rods of all 24 SFAs and 10 central SFAs on external radiation is studied analytically and by numerical modeling in the MCNP package. The destruction of 24 SFA is shown to lead to a signiﬁcant decrease in the dose rate of neutrons and gamma-radiation from 60Co on the weather lid of the cask, and of gamma-radiation from SNF isotopes at the mid-height of the side surface of the cask. The destruction of the ten central SFAs can be determined only from a change in the neutron radiation in the air inlets of the cask.

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Problems of Atomic Science and Technology

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