by GeorgeWebManHopperE | Mar 28, 2021 | Power Generation and Utilities
Challenge: Design and analyze a Transfer Cask (TC) Restraint Cup for safe fuel transfer operations. The TC Restraint Cup will hold the TC in its desired position during fuel loading and prevent impact of the TC with any adjacent fuel racks during a seismic event....
by GeorgeWebManHopperE | Mar 28, 2021 | Power Generation and Utilities
Challenge: Modify an existing Spent Fuel Handling Machine (SFHM) by raising its hoists approximately four feet to provide the lift range necessary to load the Dry Storage Canister/Transfer Cask with spent fuel assemblies. The existing system was modified once before...
by GeorgeWebManHopperE | Mar 28, 2021 | Power Generation and Utilities
Challenge: A nuclear power plant currently stores spent fuel in dry storage at an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation (ISFSI) at the site. The ISFSI consists of Dry Shielded Canisters (DSC) loaded with spent fuel which is housed in concrete Horizontal Storage...
by GeorgeWebManHopperE | Mar 28, 2021 | Power Generation and Utilities
Challenge: Leakage of borated water from a Spent Fuel Pool (SFP) has lead to a hypothesized degradation of the slab and walls behind the liner up to a worst case calculated depth of 1.12 in. The purposes of our study were to evaluate the walls, slab, and stainless...
by GeorgeWebManHopperE | Mar 28, 2021 | Power Generation and Utilities
Challenge: Our firm was asked to calculate the stresses on two types of nuclear fuel rods due to a crushing load of an accidental side drop. The fuel rods are assembled in a basket containing several stacks of fuel rods. The fuel rods are separated by spacer grids,...
