Optimizing spent nuclear fuel cask loading for VVER-440 fuel
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23220%2F24%3A43973529" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23220/24:43973529 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573324003292" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573324003292</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2024.07.014" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.net.2024.07.014</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Optimizing spent nuclear fuel cask loading for VVER-440 fuel
Original language description
The paper explores the management of spent nuclear fuel, focusing on dual-purpose spent fuel casks used to store and transport spent nuclear fuel from VVER-440 reactors. The main goal is to optimize spent fuel cask loading by developing an extensive methodology supported by a powerful tool. Using a multiple-zoning strategy, cooler outside fuel assemblies protect radiation sources from the hotter inner assemblies. An effective tool based on adjoint particle flux calculations is the recently developed OPOS-440 calculation code. This code allows for optimizing the loading pattern and determining dose rates surrounding the spent nuclear fuel cask for a selected fuel loading. The code also thoroughly demonstrates how different fuel assemblies affect the dose rate. These findings have real-world implications for reactor operations, including optimizing cask loading and supporting the licensing procedure for novel fuel types in already-existing spent fuel casks.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20305 - Nuclear related engineering; (nuclear physics to be 1.3);
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/TN02000012" target="_blank" >TN02000012: Center of Advanced Nuclear Technology II</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nuclear Engineering and Technology
ISSN
1738-5733
e-ISSN
2234-358X
Volume of the periodical
56
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
KP - KOREA, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC OF
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
5048-5054
UT code for WoS article
001359511100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85198544453