Heat Transfer Effects in Vertically Emplaced High Level Nuclear Waste Container
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
5-1-1994
Publication Title
High Level Radioactive Waste Management 1994
Publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume
2
First page number:
816
Last page number:
822
Abstract
Modeling free convection heat transfer in an cylindrical annular enclosure is still an active area of research and an important problem to be addressed in the high level nuclear waste repository. For the vertically emplaced waste container, the air gap which is between the container shell and the rock borehole, have an important role of dissipating heat to surrounding rack. These waste containers are vertically emplaced in the borehole 300 meters below ground, and in a horizontal grid of 30 {times} 8 meters apart. The borehole will be capped after the container emplacement. The expected initial heat generated is between 3--4.74 kW per container depending on the type of waste. The goal of this study is to use a computer simulation model to find the borehole wall, air-gap and the container outer wall temperature distributions.
Keywords
Computer simulations; Heat – Convection; Heat – Transmission; Nevada – Yucca Mountain; Radioactive waste canisters; Radioactive waste repositories; Temperatures
Disciplines
Heat Transfer, Combustion | Manufacturing | Mechanical Engineering | Nuclear Engineering
Language
English
Permissions
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Repository Citation
Moujaes, S. F.,
Lei, Y. M.
(1994).
Heat Transfer Effects in Vertically Emplaced High Level Nuclear Waste Container.
High Level Radioactive Waste Management 1994, 2
816-822.
American Society of Civil Engineers.