Simulation of Heat Transfer Around a Canister Placed Horizontally in a Drift

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

5-1-1994

Publication Title

High Level Radioactive Waste Management 1994

Publisher

ASCE

Volume

2

First page number:

801

Last page number:

808

Abstract

The Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project is investigating the feasibility of locating a high level radioactive nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The bore hole and the in-drift waste emplacement schemes are under evaluation as potential repository drift geometries. This paper presents a two-dimensional finite element thermal analysis of the nuclear waste canister placed horizontally in a drift. Simulation has been carried out for 1000 years and the peak temperatures at the walls of the drift and at the center of the canister have been determined. The effect of the three modes of heat transfer, conduction, natural convection and radiation, is also discussed.

Keywords

Nevada – Yucca Mountain; Radioactive waste repositories; Temperatures

Disciplines

Environmental Sciences | Mechanical Engineering | Nuclear Engineering | Oil, Gas, and Energy | Other Mechanical Engineering

Language

English

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