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Existing spent nuclear fuel (SF) and high active waste (HAW) management policies and practices worldwide are the result of past presumptions that sufficient reprocessing and/or disposal capacity would be available in the near term. Consequently, in the past many countries have developed specific solutions for different periods of time due to their individual national nuclear policies.
In Germany the concept of dry interim storage in dual purpose metal casks before disposal is being pursued for SF and HAW management and transport and storage licenses have been issued accordingly. The current operation licenses for existing storage facilities have been granted for a storage period of up to 40 years. This concept has demonstrated its suitability for over 20 years so far. Relevant safety requirements have been assessed for the short-term as well as for the long-term for site-specific operational and accidental storage conditions. But in the meantime significant delays in the national repository siting procedure occurred which will make extended storage periods necessary in the future.
Mechanical drop test scenarios for Type B (U) packages according to the IAEA regulations have to be carried out onto the so-called “unyielding target” (usually with cask impact limiters) and onto the puncture bar respectively. They are predefined and do not require any further investigation of scenarios that really could happen on transportation routes. Cask accident scenarios in the framework of approval procedures for interim storage sites are derived from a detailed analysis of the handling procedures necessary from arrival of cask at the site to its storing position.
In that case, casks are usually handled without impact limiters. Dependent on possible drop heights, drop positions and floor properties, conservative cask accident scenarios are derived for further safety proofs.
According to the mechanical assessment concept of the considered approval procedure numerical calculations have to be provided by the applicant to demonstrate mechanical cask safety. Stresses and strains in the cask body as well as in the lid System have to be identified and assessed. Using the example of a 3-mvertical-drop of a transport and storage cask for spent fuel elements onto the floor construction made of damping concrete covered by screed, BAM developed a finite element model. The finite element code ABAQUS/Explicit™ was used. Results of experimental investigations are not available. Therefore parameter studies are necessary to identify the sensitivity of the finite element model to significant Parameters and to verify the finite element models according to the requirements of the Guidelines for the Numerical Safety Analyses for the Approval of Transport and Storage Casks for Radioactive Materials (BAM GGR-008).
The paper describes the modeling of the material behavior and attachment of bottom side cask components. Questions concerning the modeling of a crack length limiting reinforcement in the screed layer are discussed. The influence of the mesh density of the screed layer and its strength is considered as well. Finally, the developed finite element model can be used for a numerical safety assessment. It can help to understand the complex mechanisms of the interaction between the cask components and floor construction.
Metal seals are widely used for extreme applications, e.g. in dual-purpose casks for dry interim storage of spent nuclear fuel in Germany. Due to the fact that interim storage must be safe at least for the approved period of 40 years there is a major interest to investigate the long-term behaviour and ageing mechanisms of metal seals. Experimental analyses indicate a time and temperature dependency of seal characteristics. This dependency was researched with a time- and temperature parameterization based up on Larson-Miller. The paper describes the derivation of the material parameter C from test results and the applicability of the Larson-Miller-Relationship for those metal seals in principle. Overall a constant material parameter C was not. Nevertheless, an approach comparable to the Larson-Miller-Parameter was developed.
The long-term sealing behavior of metal seals, assembled in the lid system of casks for transportation and storage of radioactive materials, has been investigated. For that purpose, phenomenological models describing the time- and temperature dependent behavior have been introduced by BAM since 2016, e.g. by using the time-temperature superposition principle. Results have shown that these models describe the relaxation behavior adequately and are suitable for extrapolations. In this work, the applicability of these models is checked by analyzing the necessary scope of tests, which must be carried out to get sufficient information about the long-term behavior of metal seals based on short-term tests.
The condition for plastic instability is a material characteristic and defines the onset of necking in tensile tests. In large deformation problems of ductile materials it is fundamental to determine the strain at which necking starts as well as the post-necking behaviour in the instability region properly. For verification purposes of material models, usually results of numerical analyses are compared to experimental outcomes. For tensile tests with ductile materials under dynamic loading, it is challenging to obtain comparable experimental and numerical results in terms of the onset of necking and the post-critical deformation behaviour. This paper focuses on the derivation of a theoretical criterion describing the plastic instability in rate-dependent materials based on the time variation of the strain gradient in a tensile specimen under isothermal conditions. We examine the influence of various constitutive equations on the theoretical stability condition predicted by different multiplicative as well as additive approaches. For multiplicative relations, the results indicate that the onset of necking is, in principle, independent of the strain rate, whereas for the considered additive relation, the dynamic necking strain must decrease with increasing strain rate. In conclusion, the theoretical stability condition is related to results from finite element simulations of dynamic tensile tests with various loading rates. It is shown that the simulated and the theoretical predicted onset of plastic instability agree reasonably.