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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Anna Wikmark
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In May 2015, a full-scale exercise on security while transporting spent nuclear fuel was conducted off the coast of Sweden when Sweden’s…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Xavier KNEMP, Benoit ECKERT, Marie-Thérèse CAILLARD-LIZOT, Véronique Lhomme
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Each year in France, almost one million packages of radioactive materials for civilian use are transported by road, railway, sea and air.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Kuo-Cheng Yen, Po-Hsiu Lee
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Most of the spent fuel pools at the nuclear power plants (NPPs) in Taiwan are almost full due to the insufficient capacity of spent fuel…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Mark Johnson, Mark Janicki
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The original strategy for managing intermediate level waste (ILW) in the UK involvedretrieving, sorting and encapsulation in cement based…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Matthias Jaunich, Anja Kömmling, Kerstin von der Ehe, Holger Volzke, Dietmar Wolff
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The long time-frame of the necessary safe enclosure of radioactive waste in containers gains internationally an increasing attention.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Patrick Jacot, Therese Donlevy
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This “First of the Kind” :nuclear material transport has presented always some challenge and require high professionalism of our experts.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Matthew M. Eyre, K. Scot Leuenroth, Daisuke Nagasawa, Toshiaki Yamazaki, Aaron C. Herfurth
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Many commercial nuclear reactor spent fuel pool storage racks and storage and transportation packages incorporate neutron absorber material…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Brian E. Hempy
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Fissile shipping packages are fabricated from materials governed by recognized international standards to ensure that consistent, traceable…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Li Guoqiang, Zhang Jiangang, Zhuang Dajie, Luo Xiaowei, Sun Hongchao, Wang Xuexin
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The container is the unique physical barrier during the transport period, which shall be enough tightness to withstand possible collision…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Stavroula Vogiatzi, Armin Lagumdzija, Joseph Cremona, Hassan Bsat, Soumia Zeroual, Isabel Paiva
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In order to promote more effective interaction and coordination between competent authorities at a working level, a first Mediterranean…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Philip Jensen, Nicholas Klymyshyn, Steven Ross, Paul McConnell
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The Used Fuel Disposition Campaign (UFDC) has been established by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE), to…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Nicholas Klymyshyn, Philip Jensen, Nathan P. Barrett
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The US Department of Energy Used Fuel Disposition program is performing research to determine the loading conditions that used nuclear fuel…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Mitsufumi Asami, Hideyuki Oka
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A numerical simulation model that consists of an ocean flow model, called MASs-CONsistent flow simulation model (MASCON), and a dispersion…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Bradley Loftin, G. A. Abramczyk, Richard Koenig
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The Pantex Plant developed a device for the partial removal of the containment vessel from a Model 9977 Shipping Package in order to…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Maz Hussein
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The UK nuclear decommissioning priority is to reduce risk and hazard and to deliver the clean-up mission cost effectively. This is…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Kim Lukes, Margaret Cervera, Gentry Hearn
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The United States (U.S.) framework for security and control of radioactive sources requires multijurisdictional coordination. Specifically…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Toshiari Saegusa, Koji Shirai, Hirofumi Takeda, Masumi Wataru, Kosuke NAMBA
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Spent fuel was assumed to be stored at away from reactor by dual purpose metal casks. These casks will be transported from nuclear power…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Ingo Reiche, F. Nitsche, Uwe Büttner, Florentin Lange
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Solid objects that are not radioactive by themselves but contaminated by radioactive material on their surface may be classified for…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Stéphane BRUT
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TN International has vast experience in domestic (in France) and international transport of used fuel assemblies. Up to 2,400 fuel…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Eva-Maria Kasparek, Holger Völzke
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The German repository “Konrad” is approved for the final storage of approximately 300.000 m³ of non-heat generating radioactive waste…