Impacts on storage racks

The design of the racks in the spent fuel pool of a nuclear power plant must take into account a series of operational and accidental scenarios, such as the accidental drop of a fuel element onto the racks. The rack must be designed so that only the dropped element is damaged and that the deformations produced do not threaten the criticality of the system.

Principia has analysed such impacts for a number of nuclear plants in France, US, Spain, Taiwan, South Korea, Finland, etc.