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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…
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The overall weight of a spent-fuel transport cask is minimized when its gamma shield consists of depleted uranium only; however, because of…
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Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd (PNTL) a subsidiary of British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) was established in 1975 to transport irradiated…
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A low-level radioactive-waste shipping vessel in which as auch as 3000 radwaste drums were loaded was supposed in the study, and the gamma-…
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This study makes an inventory of external irradiatjon dose equivalents and collective dose equivalents received by workers and the public…
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The paper deals with the USSR experience in shipping the commercial WWER-1000 reactor spent fuel in TK-10 and TK-13 casks. The cask designs…
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The number of accidents occuring during shipment of dangerous materials in France varies between 200 and 250 each year. Those concerning…
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Between 1973 and 1988 British Nuclear Fuels plc and its subsidiary company Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited have transported more than 570…
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In the Federal Republic of Germany a possible path for intermediate storage of spent fuel elements is the use of transport and storage…
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The design of the lifting points (trunnions) of packages of radioactive material is part of the safety analysis in the transport licensing…
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The accidents in road transportation of package may be collision ,fall and fire. It is necessary to examine all cases very carefully…
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Full scale drop tests of casks to be licensed as type B(U)- packages according to the IAEA- Regulations are in most cases necessary because…
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This paper discusses an assessment (McConnell et al. 1988), of the probability of breach of containment, which may result in the release of…
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BNFL and its subsidiary Company, PNTL, design and operate waterfilled L WR fuel transport flasks for the international transport of…
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A 9-m drop test was conducted of a 1/3-scale-model spent fuel cask onto an unyielding target. The structural response of the impact…
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The strategy for interim storage of nuclear spent fuel prior to reprocessing is established in Japan. We propose to develop technical…
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Ductile Cast Iron (DCI) has not been yet employed for Cask Material in Japan. This might be because there are insufficient material data on…
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General Atomics (GA), under contract to the Idaho Operations Office of the U.S. Department of Energy, is developing two new legal weight…
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There are a number of different two-dimensional dynamic analysis methods used for analyzing impacts of nuclear shipping casks. The simplest…
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Imagine the ideal training course. The training material is relevant. The instruction is sometimes humorous, but the humor relates to the…