GA-4 Half-Scale Model Test*

General Atomics (GA), under contract to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), • developed two legal-weight truck shipping casks with trailers for transport of reactor spent fuel. The GA-4 and GA-9 casks were designed to transport four pressurized-water-reactor and nine boiling-water-reactor spent-fuel assemblies, respectively. GA has completed a half-scale model of the GA-4 cask, which was used for verification testing in support of the structural analysis presented in the Safety Analysis Report for Packaging (SARP). The objective of the test program was to verify the analyses of the 9-meter (30-foot) drop and 1-meter (40-inch) puncture event requirements set forth in 10 CFR Part 71.73.