TEMPERATURE PROFILES WITHIN CYLINDERS CONTAINING INTERNAL HEAT SOURCES AND MATERIALS OF TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT THERMAL CONDUCTIVITIES. DESCRIPTION OF FAST COMPUTER PROGRAMS AS APPLIED TO SOLIDIFIED RADIOACTIVE WASTES

摘要

The safety and economic aspects of producing and storing radioactive wastes as solids, usually in vessels having a cylindrical geometry, require that we know the maximum internal temperatures to be expected as a result of decay heat. Such information is mandatory for materials that have variable thermal conductivities under different storage conditions.nThis report presents a computer program (STORE), which was written to permit more rapid calculation of temperature profiles within cylinders containing homogeneously distributed heat sources and materials whose thermal conductivities can be expressed as a tabular function of temperature.