Analysis technology on the temperature and thermal stress of the cask for radioactive material transport

The cask is used to transport the radioactive materials, It is required to withstand for the thirty minute under the hypothetical fire accident condition of the 800 degrees C. According to development of the computer simulation, finite element analysis is applied to the calculation widely. But finite element method for the hypothetical accident conditions is not established in domestic regulations. In this study, the temperature and thermal stress analysis of KSC-4 cask under 800 degrees C fire condition is conducted using by ANSYS 7.0 code. In order to analyze finite elements, two-dimensional model of KSC-4 cask is used. Symmetric boundary, convection, and radiation condition are applied in the analysis. As the results, maximum temperature and thermal stress of the KSC-4 cask is evaluated.