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The French nuclear research center CEA and AREVA TN International jointly own a fleet of diversified packages to transport nuclear products…
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Concerning gamma shielding materials used for a transportable storage cask, technical and economical comparison was performed at PATRAM…
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Compartment fire tests were performed using Jet-A-1 as the fire source under a compartment condition in order to evaluate the flame…
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The need for large component transport has arisen due to the retirement and dismantlement of some facilities, as well as component…
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The IAEA transport regulations contain criteria for excluding some shipments of uranium and/or plutonium from the requirements pertaining…
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Compliance assessment (CA) system that is system of the direct or oblique determination of carrying-out the requirements for the regulated…
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conducts training program for the relevant authorities in the Member States to enable them to…
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After a first technical guide “Package Design Safety Reports for the Transport of Radioactive Material” published in June 2008, the…
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Over the next few years the engineering support required to meet the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s strategic targets for…
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Pyroprocess technology has been considered as a fuel cycle option to solve the spent fuel accumulation problems in Korea. The Korea Atomic…
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High-burnup fuel has different characteristics than low-burnup fuel with respect to cladding oxide thickness and hydride content,…
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At any moment, there can be ~20,000 cylinders containing natural or low-enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF6) in global circulation among…
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In 2006, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) established a Coordinated Research Programme (CRP) on Safety of Transport of…
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The safety record of transporting radioactive material is remarkable; globally with tens of millions of packages transported; each year…
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Due to its chemical and physical properties, enriched UF6 presents several challenges to criticality safety. Recently, criticality safety…
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Packages used by Sellafield Ltd for the on-site and off-site transport of cans of fissile materials have been in service for a number of…
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After PATRAM 2010, the IAEA initiated an ambitious effort to compile a technical basis document (TecBasDoc) covering the 2012 Edition of…
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The transport of enriched hexafluoride uranium (UF6) is carried out in large steel cylinders. In filled cylinders, a maximum of 0.5wt. % of…
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The material spruce wood is frequently used in impact limiters of Type B transport packages. In order to develop and parametrize an…
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In 2010 the Recommendations for Guidelines on the 10 yearly Periodical safety assessments of Intermediate Storage Plants (ISP) for spent…