Using of Air Natural Convection for Cooling of Casks with Spent Nuclear Fuel in Dry Storage System

Abstract:

The paper is devoted to the description of project of storage system for the spent nuclear fuel. The proposed dry storage system is based on the natural convection of air so no additional fans are needed for the cooling. In the paper basic parameters of the storage as well as some preliminary computations verifying its concept are described.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 816)
• Pages: 103-107
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.816.103
• Online since: November 2015
• Authors: Jozef Bocko*, Pavol Lengvarský
• Keywords: Cask, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Natural Convection, Passive Cooling, Spent Nuclear Fuel

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