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Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) utilizes fire test facilities to subject military components and nuclear material shipping containers to…
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The reprocessing of spent fuel generates different kinds of wastes. Among them fission products and non fissile actinides represent 98…
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United States Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations require a postnotification report from the shipper for all shipments of…
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The Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERJ) is currently engaged in a study of High Leve l Waste Vitrified Waste (HLW) at the Waste…
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Predicting specific thermal behavior of spent fuel assemblies involved in an accident during shipping is difficult because of the geometric…
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A considerable amount of transportation-related data exists at the national and state levels which may be of assistance In the evaluation…
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Ontario Hydro has recently designed a new Type B(M) Tritiated Heavy Water Transportation Package (THWTP) for the road transportation of…
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Sandia National Laboratories, in cooperation with industry and other national laboratories, has been benchmarking computer codes (\"…
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Early in 1988, the United States Department of Energy - Idaho~rations Office (OOE-ID) awarded General Atanics (GA) a contract forthe Legal…
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Spent fuel transportation casks have arrived at final destinations with removable surface contamination levels in excess of regulatory…
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is currently proposing to essentially adopt the most recent International Atomic Energy Agency (…
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The transport of radioactive waste materials in radioactive material (RAM) packages involves two components: the packaging used for…
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In Sweden 12 nuclear reactors are now in operation. They are located at four different sites: Oskarshamn, Barsebäck, Ringhals and Forsmark…
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Routing and scheduling decisions for radioactive waste shipments are important because these decisions alter the probability of accidents…
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In Japan, radioactive wastes owing to the reprocess of the spent fuel will be returned from the U.K. and France in the near future.…
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' The paper deals with the results of investigation ot gamma-neutron radiation formation behind the radiation shielding of a shipping cask…
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It is quite a common place to say that the IAEA recommendations on the safe transport of radioactive materials remarkably succeeded in…
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Good morning. On behalf of Secretary of Energy Watkins, it is a pleasure to welcome you to PATRAM '89. I welcome the opportunity to address…
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Following earlier work (Price and Lafontaine, 1985) a further study of large shielded packages for decommissioning waste was initiated in…
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Packages designed to contain radioactive materials for transport or storage must be shown to be leak-tight to certain standards. Tests are…