Closure of the concrete supercontainer in hot cell under thermal load

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Volumn 241, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1352-1359

  Craeye, Bart ^a   De Schutter, Geert ^b   Wacquier, William ^c   Van Humbeeck, Hughes ^c   Van Cotthem, Alain ^d   Areias, Lou ^e  

^a Hogeschool Antwerpen   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Belgian Agency for Management of Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials   (Belgium)

^d TRACTEBEL ENGINEERING   (Belgium)

^e BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR GAP; CASTING PROCESS; COEFFICIENT OF THERMAL EXPANSION; CONCRETE COMPOSITION; CONCRETE LAYER; CONCRETE TYPES; CONSTRUCTION STAGES; EARLY AGE CRACKING; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; FILLER MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT; HIGH LEVEL WASTE; HOST ROCKS; HOT CELL; MACRO-CRACKS; MATERIAL DATABASE; MODULUS OF ELASTICITY; OUTER SURFACE; OVERPACK; PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES; SELF COMPACTING CONCRETE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CARBON STEEL; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CRACKS; FILLERS; FILLING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; STAINLESS STEEL; THERMAL INSULATION; THERMAL LOAD; WASTE DISPOSAL;

THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 79955017826     PISSN: 00295493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2011.01.028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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