HYDROGEN GAS GENERATION MODEL FOR FUEL-BASEDREMOTE-HANDLED TRANSURANIC WASTE STORED AT THE INEEL

摘要

The Idaho National Environmental and Engineering Laboratory (INEEL) initiated efforts tocalculate the hydrogen gas generation in remote-handled transuranic (RH-TRU) containers in orderto evaluate continued storage of unvented RH-TRU containers in vaults and to identify any potentialproblems during retrieval and aboveground storage. A computer code is developed to calculate thehydrogen concentration in the stored RH-TRU waste drums for known configuration, waste matrix,and radionuclide inventories as a function of time.