TENERIFE Program: Thermophysical Behavior of UF 6 in a Transport Container Under Fire Conditions

Year
1995
Author(s)
G. Sert - Institut de Protection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IPSN), France
J. Saroul - Institut de Protection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IPSN), France
J.M Meulders - Institut de Protection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IPSN), France
C. Casselman - Institut de Protection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IPSN), France
K. Shirai - Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI)
M. Wataru - Central Research Institute of Electrical Power Industry, 1646 Abiko, Abiko-shi, Chiba-ken 270-1194 Japan
T. Saegusa - Central Research Institute of Electrical Power Industry, 1646 Abiko, Abiko-shi, Chiba-ken 270-1194 Japan
H. Onuma - Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
B. Duret - Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique
J.C. Bonnard - Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique
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Abstract
The International Atomic Energy Agency, in accordance with the revision of the IAEA Regulations in 1996, has been working on establishing regulations for UF6 transportation taking into account chemical and radiological hazards. Up to now, various experimental and computational extrapolations of the resistance of a UF6 container under certain ftre conditions have been discussed. However, among these results there is a great dispersion as the occurrence of rupture because of the scale effect (Williams 1988 ; Yamakawa and Shiomi 1988; Abe et al. 1989 ; Duret and Bonnard 1983 ; Duret and Warniez 1988). In order to make clear the thermophysical behavior ofUF6 in a transport container under realistic fire conditions, an experimental research program (TENERIFE) was defmed and started in 1991 under the CRIEPI/IPSN joint research agreement (Casselman et al. 1992). The first objective is to qualify the computer codes. The second is to evaluate the behavior of a 48Y -container in a realistic fire condition. In this paper, the first test results of the TENERIFE program are presented.