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High waste storage and disposal costs prevailing in Europe are an incentive to decontaminate thoroughly redundant components for metal…
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In 1981, a national Agency in charge of the management of radioactive waste am fissile materials called NIRAS/ ONDRAF has been established…
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It is very important to use plutonium for light water reactor (LWR) fuels from the standpoint of one of the effective use of recovered…
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Rigid, closed-cell, polyurethane foam is used in impact limiters in nuclear waste transport containers. During a hypothetical nuclear waste…
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) recently developed a PIE (Post Irradiation Examination)-fuel shipping cask (MSF- I ). The objective…
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Since that goods are transported, their chocking and stowing is very often done by improvisation, successfully or disastrously. When the…
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Japanese first prototype FBR \"MONJU\" is being constructed by Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC). After a few…
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General Atomics (GA), has a contract with DOE's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) to develop two legal weight truck…
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After the planned trial voyage (4700 MWD/MTU) of the nuclear ship MUTSU in 1990, her spent fuel assemblies, initially made of two types of…
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On July 20, 1986 the first shipment of TMI-2 Fuel Debris departed Three Mile Island in the NuPac 125-B rail cask. The shipment arrived via…
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In Sweden, electrical production from the first commercial nuclear plant commenced in 1972, i.e. 17 years ago. There are now 12 nuclear…
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Type A packagings were first introduced into the Unit ed States Department of Transportation (DOT) r egulations in 1968. Seven years later…
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The purposes of the tests are to confirm the validity of the design and an evaluation method applied for safety analyses of the JMTR spent…
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Due to the fact, that in FRG one has to demonstrate, that type B(U)- packagings not only withstand the mechanical loads concerning IAEA-…
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ENEA has in storage at its pilot reprocessing plants more than one hundred spent fuel elements arising from ENEL's (the Italian Electricity…
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Designing systems for transporting radioactive material (RAM) has gained Increasing importance as the need for transporting and storage of…
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Static and dynamic analyses of an impact limiter for a spent fuel cask have been performed using the finite element analysis code PRONT02D…
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Hypothetical accident conditions for testing transport casks require the cask to withstand a 9-meter drop onto an unyielding target at a…
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Spent fuel can be stored at a reactor site in accordance with 10 CFR 72. One method of storage is to use a cask to contain and shield the…
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As one of the most important producer of nuclear electricity in the world, EDF is concerned by all the aspects of the transport of nuclear…