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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):L. B. Shappert, C.F. Sanders
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In recent years, the Westinghouse Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility has been faced with increasing pressure from utilities that wished to…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):B. Droste, B. Gogolin, T. Quercetti, D. Rittscher
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Packagings for non-heat-generating radioactive wastes to be disposed of in the planned repository in the F.R.G. - the former \"Konrad\"…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):T. Yasunaka, K. Nakano
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From the viewpoint of economy, the nuclear spent fuel shipping or intermediate storage casks of ferritic nodular cast iron have attracted…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J.J. Stephens, Ken B. Sorenson, Paul McConnell
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Conventional cast and wrought (\"Ingot Metallurgy\") borated 304 stainless steel has been used for a number of years in spent fuel storage…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):T. Ikeda, T. Inada, S. Harabara, R. Cheshire, G. Lee
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About 90% of nuclear fuel irradiated in Japanese nuclear power stations is transported to UK and France for reprocessing. Pacific Nuclear…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Robert E. Luna, J.D. McClure, P. C. Bennett, T.A. Wheeler
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The Packaging and Transportation Needs in the 1990's (PATN) component of the Transportation Assessment and Integration (TRAIN) program (DOE…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. Hamard, C. Ringot, H. Bernard, R. Connat, P. Lecoq, P. Morin
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The estimation of the doses received by the workers and the public has been followed up in France on a triennial basis since 1981. It is…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M. Yoneda, Ichizo Kokaji, T. Nago, K. Hanafusa, T. Noura, T. Yamashita, M. Vallette-Fontaine
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TN -12/ 1 package containing 12 spent fuel assemblies have been shipped from PWR power plants in Japan to overseas reprocessing facility in…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M. Aritomi, N. Li, Kenichi Tanaka, Toshiaki Hayashi, T. Noura, M. Yokozecki, Ryoji Asano, N. Niyomura
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A sealing function is essential for transportation casks of radioactive materials under both normal and accidental conditions in…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Shirai, C. Ito, M. Funahashi
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Reprocessing radioactive wastes, e.g., the vitrified high level radioactive wastes, will be returned from the U.K. and France in 1995 to…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):N. Watabe, H. Suzuki, K. Shirai, K. Noguchi, Y. Kinehara
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Construction of a nuclear-cycle facility at Rokkasho-mura in Japan's Aomori Pref. is being planned. Its uranium enrichment plant is already…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):T. Katoh, S. Ozaki, K. Misawa, Y. Tahara
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The HZ-75T spent fuel shipping cask has been used in domestic transportation of LWR spent fuel and ATR spent fuel from lO(ten) nuclear…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):I Nagano, T. Harada, Masami Hanate
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Currently, most of the spent fuel from nuclear power stations in Japan is transported to oversea's reprocessing plants (COGEMA, BNFL),…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Ueki, M. Nakazawa, S. Hattori, S. Ozaki, H. Tamaki, H. Kadotani, T. Ishuzuka, S. Ishikawa
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As a part of the safety demonstration tests imposed on a cask for high-level wastes, shielding experiments have been performed at the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):T. Miura, N. Odano, Y. Shindo
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Japan is scheduled to transport a large amount of radioactive wastes by exclusive vesse ls mainly from domestic nuclear plants to the low…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Ryoji Asano, Nagao Niomura
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Resins which have high Hydrogen atom content are effective for Neutron shielding and are recently used for neutron shielding material of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K.E. Wieser, H. Frenz, B. Gogolin
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This paper is a summary of a research study as part of comparable efforts in Japan, France and the USA aimed at developing principles,…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):P. Pretesacque, J.C. Nimal, T.D. Huynh, M. Zachar
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About 3000 irradiated Ught Water Reactor (LWR) fuel assemblies are received yearly by COGEMA from their customers throughout the world in…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Richard Gowing, P. Purcell
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At PATRAM '89 I described (Gowing 1989} the flasks used by British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) and its subsidiary Pacific Nuclear Transport…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M. A. Koploy
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General Atomics (GA) is under contract to the U.S. Department of Energy, Field Office, Idaho, to develop two legal weight truck casks for…