Full-Scale Assembly 30 cm Drop Test. (2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kalinina, Elena; Ammerman, Doug; Grey, Carissa; Flores, Gregg; Saltzstein, Sylvia; Klymyshyn, Nicholas
• Is Part Of: MRS advances. Volume 5:Number 5/6(2020)
• Page Start: 265
• Page End: 274
• Publication Date: 2020
• Subjects: transportation; Electrical engineering -- Congresses; Physics -- Congresses; Materials -- Research -- Congresses; Materials science -- Congresses; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1557/adv.2019.477
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2059-8521

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Can Spent Nuclear Fuel withstand the shocks and vibrations experienced during normal conditions of transport? This question was the motivation for the multi-modal transportation test (MMTT) (Summer 2017), 1/3-scale cask 30 cm drop test (December 2018), and full-scale assembly 30 cm drop tests (June 2019). The full-scale ENSA ENUN 32P cask with 3 surrogate 17x17 PWR assemblies was used in the MMTT. The 1/3-scale cask was a mockup of this cask. The 30 cm drop tests provided the accelerations on the 1/3-scale dummy assemblies. These data were used to design full-scale assembly drop tests with the goal to quantify the strain fuel rods experience inside a cask when dropped from a height of 30 cm. The drop tests were first done with the dummy and then with the surrogate assembly. This paper presents the preliminary results of the tests.