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A canister loaded spent fuels stored in a concrete over-pack is planned to be taken out from the concrete over-pack, and to be shipped to a…
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Over the past five years, several nuclear reactors worldwide have closed unexpectedly, after fresh fuel for the next fuel reload had been…
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Hitachi Zosen provides design and fabrication of transportable storage metal cask, and is developing concrete cask system for future demand…
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Beginning in 2008, a new type of sealed-source encapsulation package was developed and tested by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).…
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DAHER NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGIES GmbH (DAHER NT) is licensed for the transport of highly sensitive radioactive material since decades. With its…
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This paper summarizes studies of truck and rail transport accidents involving fires, relative to regulatory requirements for shipment of…
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The safe and secure interim storage of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste (HLW) from nuclear power reactors is a major issue in the…
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SNF rods lie horizontally and are supported by the assembly guide tubes and spacer grids inside specially designed transportation casks.…
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Modern explicit dynamics finite element computer codes used for the design and evaluation of spent fuel transportation packages and storage…
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At PATRAM 2013, papers were presented outlining the efforts underway at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to develop a…
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For stowage and retention during transport, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) transport regulations (SSR-6) only require that…
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In preparation of lowering a welded canister containing fuel inside a vertical concrete cask (VCC), a bottom end drop of the canister into…
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Transportable storage casks for spent fuels are able to be used for transport of spent fuels from nuclear power plants to an interim…
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It is common in Japan to apply QAD-CGGP2R, DOT3.5 and DORT to safety analysis for transport and storage cask, and MCNP code is being…
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission have initiated a multiyear project to investigate the…
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In the transport of intact spent fuel discharged from an ordinarily operated nuclear power station, the amount of hydrogen generated by…
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FEM analysis was performed using the LS-DYNA software to evaluate the effect of the secondary impact load on a slap-down drop. The finite…
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In the Recyclable Fuel Storage Center, which is the first away from reactor (AFR) spent fuel storage facility in Japan, spent nuclear fuel…
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This paper provides an overview of the survey requirements of the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate, ENSI, to the manufacturers and…
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After the political decision to stop reprocessing of spent fuel (SF) by mid-2006, the availability of dual purpose casks (DPCs) became as…