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Bolted impact limiters generally equip extremities of packages used to transport irradiated fuel or high-level waste. These shock absorbers…
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is laying the groundwork for implementing interim storage and associated transportation of spent…
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The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy is laying the groundwork forimplementing interim storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF…
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It is generally assumed in the criticality safety design of spent fuel transport packages that extremely conservative virtual spent fuel,…
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In order to apply the MCNP code to shielding analysis of spent fuel casks, the reduction of Fractional Standard Deviation (FSD) is an…
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Large scale transportation of Canada’s inventory of used nuclear fuel is still several decades away. However, the impact of the used fuel…
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Packages for the transport of radioactive material are often equipped with impact limiters consisting of wood, encapsulated by steel sheets…
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This paper presents data obtained from experiments performed using a bending test set-up developed at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) –…
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The Nuclear Fuel Transport Co., Ltd. (“NFT”) found that lid anchor bolts (“lid bolts”) onLow-Level Radioactive Waste (“LLW”) containers…
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We found a total of five fractured lid bolts on low-level radioactive waste (ìLLWî) containers in storage from February to June 2015. We…
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For the type B(U)F package NCS 45 leak tight cans are stipulated in the certificate of package approval to provide a barrier for the…
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The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, Office of Fuel Cycle Technology has established the Used Fuel Disposition Campaign…
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This paper shows our calculations with a diffusion calculation code, HotSpot, on the effects of a radiological release of fission products…
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Within the framework of spent fuel assemblies (SFA) shipments from French NPPs to the AREVA La Hague recycling plant, unexpected foreign…
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Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co (SKB) has recently completed the clearance and recycling of MV Sigyn, an INF-3 ship. MV Sigyn…
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We propose techniques of arranging traffic information of a sea area using AIS data and then estimating conditional collision frequency for…
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The IAEA regulatory thermal test is designed to bound conditions in historic transportation fire accidents. The regulatory thermal test is…
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PurposeTo consider the most effective means of communicating safety and security critical information in respect of radioactive material…
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Graphene is a relatively new and exciting carbon allotrope because of its exceptional property profile. While graphene currently attracts…
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The joint TRANSSC/WASSC Working Group (JWG) was established in April 2011, and has developed a technical document “Methodology for a Safety…