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9
Categorie Soggetti
Management,"Operatione Research & Management Science","Operatione Research & Management Science
An optimal disposal schedule for the burial of spent nuclear fuel from
boiling-water and pressurized-water power reactors in a geologic repo
sitory has been developed using the classical transportation model fro
m linear programming. Optimization is achieved by minimizing the total
area required to absorb and dissipate the dynamic, yet highly predict
able, quantity of heat produced by the nuclear waste. Costs associated
with burying the spent power-reactor fuel can be measured in terms of
the ''area required per ton of waste material.' This thermal cost is
a time-varying quantity governed by the principles of radioactive deca
y. The resultant schedule provides for equivalent thermomechanical eff
ects over the entire repository region following adjustments for the t
ype and burnup level of the spent fuel while accommodating predetermin
ed capacity specifications.