2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnucene.2014.07.008
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Use of TRACE best estimate code to analyze spent fuel storage pools safety

Abstract: Nuclear policies have experienced an important change since Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant accident and the safety of spent fuels has been in the spot issue among all the safety concerns. At many countries, the spent fuel of nuclear power plants is not reprocessed so it has to be stored inside the facilities, normally in pools. As nuclear power plants use best estimate codes to perform safety analysis, it is interesting to assess the capacity of such codes to simulate spent fuel pools behavior. This paper use… Show more

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“…TRACE data for the accident scenario in terms of water temperature and drop of pond water 453 level respectively. In Figure 5, for up to one hour the same linear trend is observed, but a clear 454 shift of 1.8 o C is recorded, the reason for which is not obvious from the original paper [18]. 455 Figure 6 shows a sudden drop in water level over a very short time (something similar to 456 purging), but the reason for such behaviour was also not explained.…”
Section: Figures 5 and 6 Show Comparisons Between The Results Predictmentioning
confidence: 86%
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“…TRACE data for the accident scenario in terms of water temperature and drop of pond water 453 level respectively. In Figure 5, for up to one hour the same linear trend is observed, but a clear 454 shift of 1.8 o C is recorded, the reason for which is not obvious from the original paper [18]. 455 Figure 6 shows a sudden drop in water level over a very short time (something similar to 456 purging), but the reason for such behaviour was also not explained.…”
Section: Figures 5 and 6 Show Comparisons Between The Results Predictmentioning
confidence: 86%
“…The Maine Yankee spent fuel pool is a relatively small cooling pond located at the reactor site, 410 with dimensions of 12.6 m long, 11.3 m wide and 11.1 m deep. Carlos et al [18] used TRACE 411 best estimate code to analyse the response of the cooling pond in different scenarios. During 412 their calculations, no heat loss was considered at the free water surface except when the water 413 has reached its saturation temperature (100 o C) with the initiation of boiling.…”
Section: Validation With Maine Yankee Pool Data 409mentioning
confidence: 99%
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