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Method for calculating the duration of vacuum drying of a metal-concrete container for spent nuclear fuel

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A method for calculating the quantity of moisture in a metal-concrete container in the process of its charging with spent nuclear fuel is proposed. A computing method and results obtained by it for conservative estimation of the time of vacuum drying of a container charged with spent nuclear fuel by technologies with quantization and without quantization of the lower fuel element cluster are presented. It has been shown that the absence of quantization in loading spent fuel increases several times the time of vacuum drying of the metal-concrete container.

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  1. Center “Technical Diagnostics and Reliability of NPPs and TPPs”, 29 Politekhnicheskaya Str., St. Petersburg, 195251, Russia

    Yu. E. Karyakin & A. A. Pletnev

  2. OOO NPF “Sosny”, 11 Derbenevskaya Bank, Moscow, 115114, Russia

    M. A. Nekhozhin

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 689–695, July–August, 2013.

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Karyakin, Y.E., Nekhozhin, M.A. & Pletnev, A.A. Method for calculating the duration of vacuum drying of a metal-concrete container for spent nuclear fuel. J Eng Phys Thermophy 86, 735–742 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-013-0890-3

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