Development of analytical models for the natural circulation behavior of a full-scale PWR fuel assembly

M Liu, S Ni, X Wang, L Liu, H Gu - Annals of Nuclear Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
During a loss-of-coolant accident in spent fuel pools, the fuel assembly will be exposed to
the air environment and decay heat will be removed through the natural circulation of air. In …

Cooling systems for spent nuclear fuel, casks including the cooling systems, and methods for cooling spent nuclear fuel

EP Loewen, BS Triplett, BJ Dooies - US Patent 9,911,516, 2018 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A cooling system for spent nuclear fuel may include a device configured to
generate electricity using energy emitted from the spent nuclear fuel. The cooling system …

Geometrically-Accurate-Three-Dimensional Simulations of a Used Nuclear Fuel Canister Filled With Helium

T Manzo, MH Nacer, M Greiner - Pressure Vessels …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper presents preliminary results of heat transfer simulations performed in
geometrically-accurate-three-dimensional model of nuclear fuel canister filled with helium …

Thermal hydraulic analysis of VVER spent fuels stored in vault dry system under different operating and design conditions

SA Elnaggar, SA Wasfy, SH Abdel-Latif, AM Refaey - Kerntechnik, 2023 - degruyter.com
The spent nuclear fuel discharged from power reactors is a very important problem facing
the future of using power reactors in electricity production. This paper focuses on the thermal …

[HTML][HTML] Cooling Process Analysis of a 5-Drum System for Radioactive Waste Processing

A Iranzo, FJ Pino, J Guerra, F Bernal, N García - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
A cooling system design for the processing of radioactive waste drums is investigated in this
work, with the objective of providing insights for the determination of the air flow rate …

[PDF][PDF] NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF DECAY HEAT SCATTERING OUT OF AP1000

S TIAN, G LI, J LIU, H YUAN, X SONG, W WANG - doiserbia.nb.rs
The heat transfer performance of the spent fuel transport cask is inseparably related to the
safety of the whole reprocessing system. In this study, we carried out the thermal analysis on …

Numerical simulation of decay heat scattering out of AP1000 nuclear reactor spent fuel cask based on finite element method

S Tian, G Li, J Liu, H Yuan, X Song, W Wang - Thermal Science, 2020 - doiserbia.nb.rs
The heat transfer performance of the spent fuel transport cask is inseparably related to the
safety of the whole reprocessing system. In this study, we carried out the thermal analysis on …

Investigation of Thermal Hydraulic Behavior of Dry Spent Fuel Cask Under Forced Convection

S Helmy, A Hamza, S Elnaggar - Arab Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - ajnsa.journals.ekb.eg
The thermal hydraulic behavior of the spent fuel in dry storage cask under forced convection
mode is experimentally and numerically investigated. For this purpose a test rig is designed …