TY - CHAP
T1 - Analysis of an Aircraft Impact on a Dry Storage Cask of Spent Nuclear Fuel
AU - Hernández-Palafox, Edgar
AU - Cruz-Castro, Juan
AU - López-Grijalba, Yunuén
AU - Hernández-Gómez, Luis Héctor
AU - Urriolagoitia-Calderón, Guillermo Manuel
AU - Carbajal-Figueroa, Laura Guadalupe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Nowadays, nuclear power plants can use a dry storage cask (DSC) for the spent nuclear fuel (NSF) on site. It is a reinforced concrete vessel, which has an internal stainless steel cylinder. Its main function is to provide a barrier against radiation, to cool down the spent fuel and to avoid nuclear fission through the internal metallic surface that contains the radioactive material. This vessel has been designed to withstand different conditions such as free fall, penetration, crushing and extreme temperatures. However, there is limited knowledge about the assessment of an aircraft impact on such vessels in the open literature. In this paper, the case of an oblique impact (45° impact angle with respect to the horizontal) of a light aircraft against a dry storage cask was considered. Its structural integrity was evaluated. The containers were considered to be located in an outdoor area. The evaluation was carried out with the commercial ANSYS® code.
AB - Nowadays, nuclear power plants can use a dry storage cask (DSC) for the spent nuclear fuel (NSF) on site. It is a reinforced concrete vessel, which has an internal stainless steel cylinder. Its main function is to provide a barrier against radiation, to cool down the spent fuel and to avoid nuclear fission through the internal metallic surface that contains the radioactive material. This vessel has been designed to withstand different conditions such as free fall, penetration, crushing and extreme temperatures. However, there is limited knowledge about the assessment of an aircraft impact on such vessels in the open literature. In this paper, the case of an oblique impact (45° impact angle with respect to the horizontal) of a light aircraft against a dry storage cask was considered. Its structural integrity was evaluated. The containers were considered to be located in an outdoor area. The evaluation was carried out with the commercial ANSYS® code.
KW - Aircraft impact
KW - Explicit dynamics analysis
KW - Independent spent fuel storage installations
KW - Spent fuel storage pool
KW - Structural integrity
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-39062-4_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-39062-4_9
M3 - Capítulo
AN - SCOPUS:85081533700
T3 - Advanced Structured Materials
SP - 91
EP - 102
BT - Advanced Structured Materials
PB - Springer
ER -