Status Report on the Spent-Fuel Test-Climax, Nevada Test Site: A Test of Dry Storage of Spent Fuel in a Deep Granite Location

摘要

The Spent Fuel Test-Climax (SFT-C) is located at a depth of 420 m in the Climax granite at the Nevada Test Site. The test array contains 11 canistered PWR fuel assemblies, plus associated electrical simulators and electrical heaters. There are nearly 900 channels of thermal, radiation, stress, displacement, and test control instrumentation. This paper is a general status report on the test, which started in May 1980.