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Yes - it is important! First it was quality assurance, then total quality, and now the term is safety culture. Whatever you call it, a…
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« Safety culture » is a wording that appeared first in 1986, during the evaluation of what happened during the Tchemobyl accident. Safety…
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The SAFKEG family of packages were developed specifically to replace existing fissile material packages designs which are based on 30 year…
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Transnucleaire carries out transports of nuclear materials at each stage of the fuel cycle: • from mine to reactor: yellow cake, U30 8,…
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The SeaRAM Program conducted for the US Department of Energy by Sandia National Laboratories has developed estimates of • the frequencies…
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The transport of radioactive materials by sea is estimated to 255 shipments on average each year in France. To these movements may be…
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Till about 4 years ago, transports of Security Category I from or towards the United Kingdom (U.K.) were usually carried out as the…
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The IAEA transport regulations (lAEA SS6 1990) require radioactive materials to be segregated sufficiently from workers, members of the…
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A new ship for the transport of spent nuclear fuels which uses serpentine concrete as its major shielding material has been constructed.…
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Approximately 2,100 metric tons of unprocessed, irradiated nuclear fuel elements are stored in the two K Basins at the U.S. Department of…
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To ensure the safe and reliable transportation of radioactive materials and components, from both the front and back-end of the nuclear…
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A spreadsheet application has been developed at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory to aid the shipper when…
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A drop test series has been performed with a 1 :2 scale model of a CONSTOR-type steelconcrete cask (mass - 90 t) designed for…
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The magnitudes of accident dose-risks calculated by the RADTRAN code depend directJy on the time span between an accidental release and…
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The Federal Railway Office (Eisenbahn-Bundesamt, Bonn) is responsible for the supervision of all railway-shipments of radioactive material…
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Type B radioactive material packages are required to withstand a hypothetical puncture accident of a free fall from a height of one meter…
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A type 304 stainless steel nuclear materials storage container (NMC) has been developed and tested to verify leak tightness under severe…
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A teSting program, supported by an international group of owners of the model 21 PF- 1 protective overpacks, was held in 1996 as part of a…
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Some radioactive materials to be transported, including certain radioactive wastes, contain materiitls that qualify as dangerous goods as…
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Since 1993 the interim storage of spent fuel and high-level vitrified residues in transport and storage casks has taken an important part…