Waste Packager and Areal Power Density Approximator (WPA3) Computer Code

by John King, TRW Environmental Safety Systems Inc, Vienna, United States,
Carol Rhodes, TRW Environmental Safety Systems Inc, Vienna, United States,
Jim Byrne, TRW Environmental Safety Systems Inc, Vienna, United States,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: High Level Radioactive Waste Management 1993

Abstract:

A microcomputer-based computer code called Waste Packager and Areal Power Density (APD) Approximator (WPA3) has been developed to compute waste package inventories and track individual assembly characteristics so that heat output at any point in time can be calculated. The waste package inventories are emplaced using a simple, serial emplacement model to estimate overall APDs and Local APDs (LAPDs) for realistic, time-phased emplacement of an actual waste stream produced by a system-level model. WPA3 can also be used to aggregate individual was packages into equivalent, lumped source terms for more realistic and robust thermal analyses.

Subject Headings: Recycling | Waste storage | Radioactive wastes | Waste disposal | Thermal analysis | Computing in civil engineering | Computer programming

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