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On August 9, 1975, the U.S. Congress passed Public Law 94-79 which imposed a prohibition on the air transport of plutonium until the U.S.…
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The transportation of radioactive materjal (RAM) packages is a routine activity in the U.S. nuclear materials industry. Several different…
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The March 1979 accident at Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) severely damaged the reactor 1 s fuel and resulted in approximately 130 metrie…
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The radioactive source terms pertinent to spent fuel transport cask safety assessments are of three distinct origins; residual…
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There are three sources of releasable radioactive material in a loaded, spent fuel transport cask: (1) the residual contamination activity…
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Experimental and analytical study was conducted a1mmg at a better understanding of thermal behavior of uranium hexafluoride in cylinders.…
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The Radioactive Materials Incident Report (RMIR) Database is a compilation of transportation events that have occurred during the shipment…
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The Transportation Technology Center at Sandia National Laboratories has analyzed the impacts of transportation of research reactor spent…
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The Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) of 1982 mandates that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) establish an integrated waste management…
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Nowadays, in France, about 300 000 packages containing radioactive materials are carried every year. Among them, there are 80 000 to 90 000…
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In Japan, the Low Level Radioactive Waste (LLRW ) arising from nuclear power plants, which are currently stored at power plant sites. will…
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With the decision to reprocess spent fuel the recycling of Plutonium (Pu) into thermal reactors was concluded in the Federal Republic of…
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This paper presents the benchmarking of a finite element computer code and the subsequent results from the code simulating the 30 foot side…
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The criticality scenario treated here of a large, (36 PWR Assemblies) dry, spent fuel cask is based on the puncturing and subsequent…
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The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 mandates that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOEr establish an integrated waste management system…
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Ladies and Gentlemen: This is indeed an honor for me to welcome you to PATRAM '89. It's even a little intimidating. You represent the best…
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The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) has already recommended a change in the annual dose limit for members of the…
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In Part I {Yossifon and Szanto 1987) the authors have fomulated the mathematical model, based on dimensional similarity parameters, to…
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The current approach used for the development and certification of spent fuel storage and transport casks requires an assumption of fresh…
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Title 10, Part 71, of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 71) contains requirements for the construction and operation of spent nuclear…