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Although the regulations governing packaging and transportation are requirements-based, there is a solid case to be made for using a risk-…
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has developed Standard Review Plans (SRPs) to guide the NRC staff in performing consistent…
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The Code of Federal Regulations1 states that the effects of the normal condition of transport loads and the hypothetical accident condition…
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ODUCTION/BACKGROUND USEC performed several finite element analyses (FEAs) of the Paducah Tiger Overpack—the protective overpack used to…
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In Germany, the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) as the competent authority for package design approval has to evaluate…
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Radioactive materials are transported according to national, regional and international regulations widely based on rules set by the…
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has developed a transportable storage cask design; the \"MSF series\". The MSF series casks adopt…
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Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) provides a promising means of quickly and economically estimating service lives of elastomeric seals…
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A smart computer system developed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory can now provide alarm signals when nuclear waste transport drivers…
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Even prior to the beginning of the nuclear age. the packaging and transportation of nuclear materials was a prime national concern. Nuclear…
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A bumup credit calculation methodology for PWR spent fuel transportation has been developed and validated in CEA/Saclay. To perform the…
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When Kernkraftwerk Gosgen (KKG}, Switzerland, specified its needs for a dual purpose cask for spent fuel assemblies, it had to solve a…
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relative severity of regulatory impacts onto an essentially rigid target to impacts at higher…
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In the 1980s, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiated a project to develop a safe and efficient transportation system for defense…
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A new approach has been devised in this work, to deal with the problem of finding puncture resistance of lead shielded shipping casks. This…
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The IAEA Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials require the consideration of temperatures of -40 °C for Type B package…
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Facing the difficulties met in the United States to obtain a dw-able certificate of approval for the existing overpacks, COGEMA wished to…
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With the aim to transport fresh MOX fuel assemblies by air starting in 2001, COGEMA asked Transnucleaire to develop a global transportation…
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A ship-to-ship collision probability in transiting Suez Canal has been studied using the theoretical safety approach and an analytical…
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The U.S. Department ofTransportation (DOT) and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission {NRC) have jointly prepared a comprehensive set of…