Probabilistic risk assessment on maritime spent nuclear fuel transportation—Part I: Transport cask damage probability

Robby Christian and Hyun Gook Kang

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2017, vol. 164, issue C, 124-135

Abstract: This paper proposes a methodology to assess and reduce risks on Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) packages from ship collisions with a probabilistic approach. A method to estimate the impact energy upon a collision was elaborated in consideration that whether ships slide or stuck to each other during collision. Structural crash-worthiness of the SNF ship was obtained through a non-linear finite element analysis. Cask damage probability was calculated based on frontal and side cask impact scenarios. This cask damage probability was investigated over various transport parameters which include the number of transport casks carried per shipment, cask stowage configuration, cask loading direction, and ship's cruise velocity.

Keywords: Non-linear finite element analysis; Ship collision; Spent nuclear fuel transportation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2016.11.021

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