
doi: 10.2172/5612113
To date, criticality analyses performed in support of the certification of spent fuel casks in the United States do not take credit for the reactivity reduction that results from burnup. By taking credit for the fuel burnup, commonly referred to as burnup credit,'' the fuel loading capacity of these casks can be increased. One of the difficulties in implementing burnup credit in criticality analyses is that there have been no critical experiments performed with spent fuel which can be used for computer code validation. In lieu of that, a reference problem set of fresh fuel critical experiments which model various conditions typical of light water reactor (LWR) transportation and storage casks has been identified and used in the validation of SCALE-4. This report documents the use of this same problem set to perform spent fuel criticality benchmark calculations by replacing the actual fresh fuel isotopics from the experiments with six different sets of calculated spent fuel isotopics. The SCALE-4 modules SAS2H and CSAS4 were used to perform the analyses. These calculations do not model actual critical experiments. The calculated k-effectives are not supposed to equal unity and will vary depending on the initial enrichment and burnup of the calculated spentmore » fuel isotopics. 12 refs., 11 tabs.« less
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Magnesium 28 Decay Radioisotopes, 050500 -- Nuclear Fuels-- Uranium Enrichment, Even-Even Nuclei, Certification, Actinide Nuclei, Reactor Materials, Isotope Separation, Heavy Nuclei, Uranium 238, Fuels, Even-Odd Nuclei, Uranium 234, Burnup, Uranium 236, Containers, Uranium 235, & Storage, Isotopes, 220300 -- Nuclear Reactor Technology-- Fuel Elements, Nuclear Fuels, Uranium Isotopes, Materials, Minutes Living Radioisotopes, Spent Fuels, Criticality, Spent Fuel Casks, Heavy Ion Decay Radioisotopes, Radioisotopes, 22 General Studies Of Nuclear Reactors, Alpha Decay Radioisotopes, Computer Codes, Isomeric Transition Isotopes, Neon 24 Decay Radioisotopes, Handling, Benchmarks, Actinide Isotopes, S Codes, Years Living Radioisotopes 050900* -- Nuclear Fuels-- Transport, Reactors, 11 Nuclear Fuel Cycle And Fuel Materials, Nuclei, Separation Processes, Casks, Water Cooled Reactors, Energy Sources
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