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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Ken B. Sorenson, Rcihard Salzbrenner, Robert E. Nickell
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Radioactive material (RAM) shipments are increasing in importance because of heightened level of awareness by the general public. Public…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Pflugrad, M. Sappok, H. J. Schlesinger, W. Stang
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NUCLEAR WASTE METAL RECYCLING/REUSE The Community's technological research aims at promoting the setting up of a regulatory framework to…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. OHSONO, Akira Higashino, Shuji Endoh
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Casks are containers for transporting and storing radioactive materials such as spent fuel, and they contain a great quantity of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. Kurakami, Y, Ouchi, K. Maeda
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Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) is now making an integrated function test of prototype fast breeder reactor \"…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. Kurakami, I. Kurita
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Japan gives a good deal of encouragement to development of an advanced thermal reactor (ATR) to secure long-term energy source. And,…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):T. Nagashima, M. Wataru, Hidetsugu Yamakawa, K. Nakajima
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There are various structures of packagings for radioactive-materials according to the quantity and nature of the radioactive-material…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Tsuda, F. Matsuda, Hiroaki Taniuchi, T. Yuhara, T. Iida
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A wide range of materials, including polymers and hydrogen-occluded alloys that might be usable as the neutron shielding material were…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. Lambert, C. W. Pennington, G. V. Guerra
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Since the passage of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA), nuclear utilities have recognized that spent fuel storage was to be a growing…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):N. Yamada, T. Sagawa, T. Sakurai, S. Karigome, T. Noura
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Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) performs studies using TRU materials which are transported from United States and other…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Tetsuya Nakao, Goro Minakami, Hiroaki Taniuchi, Kyosuke Fujisawa, Yukio Matsukawa, S. Mimura
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Spent fuels have had to be transported from nuclear reactor to reprocessing factory. As it is increasingly the high-bum-up type of spent…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Shirai, C. Ito, H. Ryu
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Since a cask is vertically oriented during loading in cask-storage, it is necessary to investigate the integrity of the cask against tip-…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):O. Tsumura, S. Shimizu, M. Murata, Y. Tanaka, M. Maruoka, I. Sato, K. Suzuki
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The DCI to be used in manufacturing spent fuel transport and storage casks will be extremely thick (500mm). As a part of the study program…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Richard Gowing, Ian J Hunter, Anthony R Cory, M. Ohashi
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The development and design by Nuclear Transport Limited (NTL) of the BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels plc) Vitrified Residue Flask for returning…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. M. Grenier, R. J. Meyer, Walter J. Mings
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GA is nearing the completion of the final design of two legal weight truck spent fuel shipping casks, the GA-4 Cask for PWR fuel and the GA…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. Diersch, Robert Gartz, Konrad Gluschke, D. Methling
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GNB is introducing two representatives of the new CASTOR cask generation based on the proved, tested and already licensed CASTOR base…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M.H. Watmough, A.J. Cooper, R.W. Croxford
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British Nuclear Fuels plc has for some years been engaged in the transportation of irradiated nuclear fuel from LWR sites in Japan and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):N. Watabe, S. Ozaki, T. Iida, H. Akamatsu
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Large amounts of waste classified as \"combustible solids\" such as asphalt packages and plastic packages. are included in the waste…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Louis Tanguy
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The recommendations expressed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials lay down,…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):S. Iwanaga, S. Uruwashi, K. Mortitani, M. Usami, S. Takahashi, T. Nakatani, M. Sawa
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As one of the development programs of the cask for the post-irradiation examination of the FBR fuels, the drop tests were carried out using…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):O. Kato, Y. Kato, S. Hattori, C. Ito, K. Sirai
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When storing spent fuel in cask, seismic resistance equivalent to Class-As (Japanese Classification for Seismic Degree) can be expected to…