Developing Spent Fuel Assembly for Advanced NDA Instrument Calibration - NGSI Spent Fuel Project
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Wilmington, NC (United States)
- Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
This report summarizes the work by Oak Ridge National Laboratory to investigate the application of modeling and simulation to support the performance assessment and calibration of the advanced nondestructive assay (NDA) instruments developed under the Next Generation Safeguards Initiative Spent Fuel (NGSI-SF) Project. Advanced NDA instrument calibration will likely require reference spent fuel assemblies with well-characterized nuclide compositions that can serve as working standards. Because no reference spent fuel standard currently exists, and the practical ability to obtain direct measurement of nuclide compositions using destructive assay (DA) measurements of an entire fuel assembly is prohibitive in the near term due to the complexity and cost of spent fuel experiments, modeling and simulation will be required to construct such reference fuel assemblies. These calculations will be used to support instrument field tests at the Swedish Interim Storage Facility (Clab) for Spent Nuclear Fuel.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1122693
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2013/576; NN4009030; MDGA517
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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