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An Advanced Cold Process Canister Design for Nuclear Waste Disposal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Heikki Raiko  and
Jukka-Pekka Salo
Heikki Raiko
Affiliation:
Technical Research Centre of Finland, Nuclear Engineering Laboratory, Lonnrotinkatu 37, SF-00180 Helsinki, Finland
Jukka-Pekka Salo
Affiliation:
Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO), Nuclear Waste Office, Fredrikinkatu 51–53 B, SF-00100 Helsinki, Finland
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Abstract

An advanced cold process canister design, ACPC-design, is introduced in this paper. The cold process canister consists of a steel canister as a load bearing element, with an outer corrosion shield of copper, Fig. 1 - Fig. 4. The canister will be rilled with granular material, such as lead shots, glass beads or quartz sand.

The conditions for the canister design are presented: dimensioning against radiation, allowed heat loads, strains, corrosion and leak tightness etc. The mechanical dimensioning of the copper/steel canister is made according to the Finnish standards (SFS) for pressure vessels.

Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 212: Symposium P – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XIV , 1990 , 351
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1991

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