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It was my privilege to serve as Chairman of the Electric Utility Companies' Nuclear Transportation Group from 1981 through 1987. In that…
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Since the 1950's the United States has been studying methods to dispose of its nuclear waste. In 1982 the NWPA created the Nuclear Waste…
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'lhe International Atomic Energy Aqency's (IAFA) Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material, Safety Series No. 6 (…
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The first problem usually facing a criticality engineer is data specification. The design engineer and operator need a design and operating…
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Packagings for transporting radioactive materials are required to survive exposure to environments defined in Title 10 Code of Federal…
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The impact limiters on a Type B transportation cask are designed toabsorb the impact energy for the 9-meter (30 foot) drop…
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During the operation and maintenance of nuclear power stations, and other nuclear facilities, solid waste materials such as paper, plastics…
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This paper describes the work undertaken by UK Nirex Limited to develop a range of containers for transporting immobilised intermediate…
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According to the IAEA Regulations, any cask for large radioactive sources must be able to withstand the free drop test from a height of 9m…
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Overweight trucks are being considered for shipments of spent nuclear fuel from reactors to an MRS or repository by the Office of Civilian…
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Natural Uranium Hexafluoride (UF 6 ) has been transported to the demonstration enrichment plant (DP), operated by Power Reacter and Nuclear…
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As far back as 1978, the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co, SKB, decided to design and develop an integrated marine transport…
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On March 11, 1988, an empty NLI -1/2 truck cask tipped over while negotiating a right-hand turn on the Rockwell International Corporation (…
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The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (NWPA) established a program for the permanent disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level…
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The packaging and transport category of low specific activity (LSA) material was conceived for radioactive materials (RAM) that were…
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There are two main reasons for me to be here today: to explain to you the reorganisation of the German fuel cycle industry and the effects…
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Large quantities of low level wastes are prepared for transportastion by special use vessels from each power plant to the storage facility…
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Papers have been presented in former PATRAM Symposia (e. g. Baatz et al 1980, Keese et al 1980, Droste et al1983, Anspach et al1986,…
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The paper describes the results of investigation aimed at finding thermal and struotural analysis methods a pplicable to transport and…
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Brennstoffinstitut Freiberg (Freiberg Fuel Research Institute) has developed a shipping cask with a capacity of 54 spent fuel assemblies…