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Materials and Dimensional Reference Handbook for the Boiling Water Reactor Dry Cask Simulator

Lindgren, Eric R.; Durbin, S.G.

The performance of commercial nuclear spent fuel dry storage casks is evaluated through detailed analytical modeling of the system’s thermal performance. A recent investigation has been completed that produced a data set that can be used to test the validity of the modeling presently used to determine cladding temperatures in modern vertical dry casks. To produce these data sets under well-controlled boundary conditions, the dry cask simulator (DCS) was built to study the thermal-hydraulic response of fuel under a variety of heat loads, internal vessel pressures, and external configurations [Durbin and Lindgren, 2017]. The experiments were conducted in Albuquerque, New Mexico where the local ambient atmospheric pressure is typically 83 kPa. The purpose of this handbook is to document the pertinent geometric and material property information needed to perform model validation efforts.