(GRS-752) SEDS-Proceedings of the 7th GRS Workshop - Safety of Extended Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Garching, 24th – 26th May 2023

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The Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH hosts its 7th workshop “Safety of Extended Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SEDS)” in Garching b. München. For the second time after the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop was provided as an in-person event. The event attracted great attention as the program was filled with presentations from 18 institutes from 7 countries and attended by 45 experts. For Germany, the broad range of experts was represented by universities and research organizations, technical support organizations, fuel vendors, and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. It started with a warm welcome of the chairpersons on the 24th of May 2023 followed by a broad overview of the research activities of the GRS and IAEA. With 15 presentations in the scientifically oriented agenda of the workshop, a wide variety of current research projects was reflected. The topics comprised material behaviour of claddings and sealings, simulation approaches for thermal cask evaluations and thermo-mechanical fuel rod performance during dry storage in common CASTOR® dry storage casks.