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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Neil Carr, Chi-Fung Tso, Conrad Izatt, Ryoji ASANO, Chris Fry, George Wright, Chris Punshon
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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has established the Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) to manage the delivery of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Mark Johnson, Neil Carr, Chi-Fung Tso, Conrad Izatt
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The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has established the Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) to manage the delivery of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Toshiaki YAMAZAKI, Yusuke Kamimura, Daisuke Nagasawa, Masayuki Moriya, Yosuke Shimada
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In order to reduce the radiation exposure of the personnel engaged in the decontamination of the highdose regions of Fukushima, a new type…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. Ramsay
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There is an increasing demand in many countries for transporting large radioactive objects, such as equipment from decommissioning or…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Brad A. Day
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A new transuranic (TRU) waste payload container has been developed for the shipment of a target waste stream consisting of approximately 9…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Hiroaki Taniuchi, Dai Yokoe, Jun Shimojo, Hiroshi Akamatsu
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The design of TK type transport and storage cask for BWR spent fuels such as TK-69, TK-52 are completed and the safety analysis has been…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R.B. Pope, Y.Y. Liu, J. M. Shuler
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Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne), with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Packaging Certification Program (PCP), is…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Chi-Fung Tso, Amar Mistry, Sundip Shah, Joerg Melzer, Gerald Tschan, Olaf Oldiges
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Between 1986 and 2011, WAK GmbH packaged wastes from the experimental reactors at Karlsruhe research centre into about 3000 Konrad-type IV…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Markus Trautmannsheimer, Yvonne Arendt
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The transportation of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) and Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Jürgen Werle, Philippe Seurat
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AREVA’s Georges Besse 1 enrichment plant at the Tricastin site in France has ended commercial production during early summer 2012. Whilst…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Norihiro Kageyama, Hiroaki Taniuchi, Kiyoshi Takahama, Jun Shimojo, Keisuke Umehara
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Safety of spent fuel dry storage system using casks is focused on in these days and this system is expected to be strongly increasing. The…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Jun Shimojo, Keisuke Umehara, Akito Oishi, Norihiro Kageyama, Hiroaki Taniuchi, Takao Shirakura
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Dry storage system using spent fuel casks is focused on in these days and demand of storage using casks is expected to be strong…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Wolfgang Bergmann, Thomas Breuer
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The design of the DN30 protective structural packaging (PSP) developed by DAHER-NCS for the transport of natural, enriched and reprocessed…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Elena Torres Alvarez, Jesus Ruiz-Hervias, Miguel A. Martin Rengel
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Several static and dynamic tests have been proposed to assess impact behaviour of spent fuel cladding. For example, the three-point bending…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Frank Koch, Bernd Roith, Stefan Theis
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Since Patram2010 long-term interim dry storage was introduced as a major issue to the international community. At the IAEA level several…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Wolfgang Botsch, Silva Smalian, Peter Hinterding
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In Germany dual purpose casks for spent nuclear fuel (SF) or high level radioactive waste (HLW) are used for safe transportation and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Sanghoon Lee, Sang-Soon Cho, Ki-Young Kim, Je-Eon Jeon, Ki-Seog Seo
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Concrete cask is an option for spent nuclear fuel interim storage. A concrete cask usually consists of metallic canister which confines the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Toshiya Kitamura, Hiroaki Doi, Kunio Maruoka
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IAEA Safety Standards No.TS-R-1 para.727 (c) requires drop test III. To assure the integrity of a cask in drop test III, the specimen is…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Andrew Barber, Sam Waters
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MOPDT (Magnox Operating Programme Delivery Team) are responsible for the safe delivery of irradiated fuel from the remaining fuelled Magnox…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Kanji Hanashima, Yukihiro Nagao, Koujiro Kodaka
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In regard to spent fuel storage and transportation casks, metal gasket is selected as sealing material from the standpoint of long-term…