Update Direct-Strike Lightning Environment for Stockpile-to-Target Sequence [electronic resource] : Supplement LLNL Subcontract #B568621 Lightning Protection at the Yucca Mountain Waste Storage Facility

Published:: Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2008.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description:: PDF-file: 13 pages; size: 0.3 Mbytes
Additional Creators:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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Summary:

The University of Florida has surveyed all relevant publications reporting lightning damage to metals, metals which could be used as components of storage containers for nuclear waste materials. We show that even the most severe lightning could not penetrate the stainless steel thicknesses proposed for nuclear waste storage casks.

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E 1.99:llnl-sr-407711
llnl-sr-407711

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Engineering

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Published through SciTech Connect.
10/09/2008.
"llnl-sr-407711"
Uman, M A.

Funding Information:

W-7405-ENG-48

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