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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):V. Léger, Stavros KITSOS
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According to the latest IAEA recommendations (2012, SSR-61), shielding analyses under routine transport conditions have to be performed…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Akiko Konnai, Ken-ichi SAWADA, Kaori Fujishima, Kenji Suzuki, Nobutaku Nakamura
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IAEA security implementing guides, “Security in the Transport of Radioactive Material”, was published as NSS No.9 in 2008, and it is…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Yukihide Haraki, Masayuki Matsumoto, Jun Yamashit
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In the transport of radioactive materials, proper responses are required to accidents and emergencies, such as an earthquake and tsunami,…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Christel Fasten, Frank Nitsche
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The Safety Standards “Radiation Protection and Safety of Radiation Sources: International Basic Safety Standards” (BSS) of the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Ben Whittard
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Regarded as the world leader in the maritime transport of specialist nuclear cargos, International Nuclear Services (INS) has recently been…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Jean-Alain Laurin, Nick C. Parson, X-Grant Chen
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Boralcan™ aluminum matrix composites using nuclear grade B4C have been used as neutronabsorbing materials for dry and wet storage…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Hirohito Ito, Hideki Takatsuki
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Nuclear Fuel Transport Co., Ltd. (“NFT”) owns three ships for transporting low-level radioactive waste (“LLW”) and spent fuel (“SF”), and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Takeru Koga, Yoshiyuki Fujita
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Transport frames are used to secure transport packagings (casks) to conveyances. The IAEA Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Michio Yokozeki, Fumito Shigeyoshi, Masahiko Ouchi, Masayoshi Okumura, Norihiro Kageyama
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In drop tests, especially under slap down drop test that lid side is suffered the secondary impact, the deceleration is generally higher…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Conrad Izatt, Daniel Fisher, Chris Chadwick
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The original strategy for managing intermediate level waste (ILW) was developed in the 1980s by the UK Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Hiroshi Takahashi, Suguru Hode, Junichi Kishimoto, Takayuki Hase
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Compression test and helium leakage test were conducted using test specimens simulated a plug of 30B cylinder.This compression test was…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Daniel Johnson, Yung Liu, Henry-Jacques Neau
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In the nuclear industry, many engineers and safety professionals belong to chartered institutes that certify their members’ competence on…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Martin Neumann, Frank Wille, Bernhard Droste
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BAM as competent authority regarding assessment of mechanical and thermal design, activity release and quality assurance aspects of SNF and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Jungjoon Lee, Hongtae Kim, Sangmyeon Ahn
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There is no permanently shutdown nuclear power reactor and decommissioned or under decommissioning nuclear power reactor, although there…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Benoit ECKERT, Marie-Thérèse CAILLARD-LIZOT, Gilles Sert, Olivier Loiseau, Bernard Monnot, Igor LE BARS
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Since more than 20 years, IRSN, the French Institute for radiation and nuclear safety, assesses the safety analysis reports in order to…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Michael Wallin, Helmuth Zika
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The authorities’ mandates for inspecting transport activities concerning dangerous goods are divided between several authorities in Sweden…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Sunghwan Chung, Kiyoung Kim, Yongdeog Kim
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KN-18 cask as shown in Fig.1 was designed to transport up to 18 PWR spent nuclear fuel assemblies in compliance with the requirements of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Rick Brown, Todd Maurmann, Jerry Langston, Steve Calson
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General Plastics Manufacturing Company’s LAST-A-FOAM® FR-3700 series foam has a history of successful use for radioactive material shipping…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Matthew R. Feldman, Kevin Connolly, Amanda Bickford, Pat Schwab
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The US Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy established the Nuclear Fuels Storage and Transportation Planning Project to lay the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Justo GARCIA, Prakash Narayanan
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Storing used fuel in licensed dry storage systems at reactor sites for long periods of time wasn’t originally anticipated: interim dry…