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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):F. L. Kanipe, S. Neuhauser, J. L. Sprung
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A way to perform RADTRAN calculations, that allows an unpopulated near-field region along a transportation link to be approximately modeled…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. K. Cole, J. A. Koski, S. D. Wix
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To better understand shipboard fire environments, a combined experimental and computational study bas been conducted at Sandia National…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):B. Gogolin, B. Droste
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If casks consist of several single components that are not attached to each other - for example inner and outer casks with a solid load,…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Robert Gartz, A. GöBler, R. John, R. Diersch, P. Nemec
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CASTOR casks have been successfully developed, manufactured and delivered for Russian type reactor fuel assemblies. These casks fulfill…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M. R. Feldman, L. B. Shappert, R. D. Bailey, G. A. Byington, K. D. Handy, R. E. Oakes Jr., E. Stumpfl
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The ES-2 is a multiconfiguration, Type B fissile material shipping package, designed by the Y -12 Nuclear Packaging Systems. It is unique…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M. Bagarry, P. Cousinou
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The reactivity of light water reactor fresh and spent fuel assemblies depends greatly on the geometrical characteristics of the fuel rods…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R.B. Pope, L. B. Shappert, R. D. Michelhaugh, J. M. Cash, R. E. Best
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Regulations for the safe packaging and transportation of radioactive materials follow a…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):E. J. Eifert, A.S. Heger, Paul McConnell
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This paper presents the results of a series of structural and shielding analyses perfonned on lead- shielded stainless steel (SS) and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):E J Morgan-Warren
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Type B packages and all packages containing fissile material, as well as special fonn materials, special arrangements and certain shipments…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):L. B. Shappert
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The Radioactive Materials Packaging Handbook: Design, Operation and Maintenance~ which will serve as a replacement for the Cask Designers…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):A.V. Afanassiev, A.L. Lazarev, N.S. Tikhonov, A.I. Tokarenko
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Nuclear fissile materials (NFM) transport safety in Russia is assured by the state regulation system on the basis of the Law of Russian…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):V. V. Kosterev, M. P. Panin, A. U. Maksimov, S. M. Gusev
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Computer software for risk assessment of transponation of imponant freight has been developed. It incorporates models of transpon accidents…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. D. Knight, D.J. Ammerman, J. A. Koski
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As a part of its ongoing research efforts, Sandia National Laboratories' Transportation Surety Center investigateS the integrity of various…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M.K. Sheaffer, L.E. Fisher, Michael E. Wangler
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Current transport regulations specify that the criticality analysis of an individual package shall assume that water can leak into or out…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. Diersch, G. Dreier, K. Glushke, A. Zubkov, B. Danilin, V. Fromzel
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A spent nuclear fuel transport and storage sandwich cask concept has been developed together with the Russian company CKTI. Special…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H. Akiyama, T. Kubota, T. Kitano, F. Morimoto, I. Obara, Tadashi Sasao
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A new ship was ordered from Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co.,Ltd by Nuclear Fuel Shipping Co.,l.Jd, and was completed and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J A Hale
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The Integrated Management System ofBNFL Transport and Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL) is subject to continuous improvement by the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):V. Decobert, A. Hurel
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The lMO, ftrst established in London in 1958, is one of the UN's « front line » agencies: from the very beginning, the improvement of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):B. Lenail, M. Takani
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This paper deals with the regulatory aspects related to the return of Vitrified High Level Waste (VHL W) from France to Japan resulting…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. J. Meyer, R. M. Grenier, Alan Zimmer, M. A. Koploy
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General Atomics (GA), under contract to the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), developed the design for a new generation of legal-weight…