ANF-10: A New Transport Container for Fresh BWR Fuel Assemblies According to IAEA Requirements

The shipment of non-irradiated BWR uranium fuel assemblies (including enriched reprocessed uranium or ERU) as well as BWR and PWR fuel rods from the fabrication facility to power plants is performed using the new ANF-10 transport container. The ANF-10 container design fully meets the requirements of IAEA Safety Standards Series, No. TS-R-1 (ST-1, Revised) [1] for transportation by road, rail and sea. On October 16, 2000, the German competent authority, the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) in Salzgitter, Germany issued the type IF package license for the ANF-10 shipping container. Since November 13, 2000 containers of this design have been used for shipping fuel assemblies and fuel rods within Germany as well as to Finland and Sweden. Applications for validation have already been submitted in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland and Spain. All drop and fire tests for the ANF-10 container were performed at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin, Germany and its test site in Lehre, Germany