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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Terry Wickland, Marty Mataya
Abstract:A type 304 stainless steel nuclear materials storage container (NMC) has been developed and tested to verify leak tightness under severe…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M. Elizabeth Darrough, Ph.D, T. Neider, A. Giantelli
Abstract:A teSting program, supported by an international group of owners of the model 21 PF- 1 protective overpacks, was held in 1996 as part of a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. Neumann, K. Gaertner, B. Richter, J. Whichello, K. Rudolf, R.F. Leslie
Abstract:The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is endeavouring to increase its safeguards efficiency by reducing its routine on-site…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J J Blenkin, C K Carrington, W P Darby, J D Heywood, M A Murray, H L Wilkinson
Abstract:Some radioactive materials to be transported, including certain radioactive wastes, contain materiitls that qualify as dangerous goods as…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. Diersch, R. Hüggenberg, A. Lührmann, Wolf-Dieter Perschmann
Abstract:Since 1993 the interim storage of spent fuel and high-level vitrified residues in transport and storage casks has taken an important part…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):L. Michels, P. Dybeck
Abstract:The A TB-8K container has been developed on behalf of SKB, the Swedish nuclear fuel and waste management organization, to transport large…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):L. Baillif, D. Beutier, D Raffestin, S. Lepicard
Abstract:Recently, the sea transport of vitrified high level radioactive waste (VHL W) between Europe and Japan has been a subject of public concern…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Marshall D. Kohen, Joseph D. Rivers
Abstract:The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) entered into force in April 1997. Although no nuclear facilities are among the declared U.S.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J J Blenkin, E. Ridsdale, H L Wilkinson
Abstract:The use of probabilistic risk assessment to assess the safety of radioactive material transport operations is well accepted. However,…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):James Lemley, Scott McAllister, Vladimir Sirotenko, Veniamin Solomatin, Laverne Romesberg, Mac Forehand, Lonnie Moore, James Lee, Sonya Bowyer, David Stromswald, Brad Wiel, Alexander Kozlovsky, Evgenia Tolga, Iouri Schmidt, Sergei Sustev
Abstract:The USDOE Material Protection Control and Accountability Program (MPC&A) has established a Project Team with the goal of providing the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William J. Desmond
Abstract:This paper will describe the history and programmatic activities of the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention Program (IPP). A principal…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):P. Purcell, A. R. Cory
Abstract:BNFL are developing a new package for the transport ofMOX fuels to European LWR utilities. This package is to comply with the 1996 edition…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark M. Pickrell, David S. Bracken, C. Rudy
Abstract:All existing calorimeter systems for sensitive nuclear assay employ a heat bath surrounding the sample chamber. The purpose of the heat…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M St J C Ames, S L Balmer
Abstract:Large Nuclear Transport and Storage Flasks (50 Tonnes +)are constantly being developed in an attempt to optimise designs to suit the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Hiroyoshi Kurihara
Abstract:Originally, the international non-proliferation regime, including the IAEA safeguards, was formulated when the world was under the Cold-War…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H. D. Radloff, D.J. Ammerman
Abstract:Recent intercontinental radioactive material shipping campaigns have focused public and regulatory attention on the safety of transport of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Boella
Abstract:The Melox MOX fabrication plant is a modern, large-scale plant that features a high level of automation. For safeguards purposes Euratom is…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H.Y. Lee, K.H. Yang, S.H. Chung, S.J. Yoon, I.H. Lee
Abstract:In 1991 and 1995, more than 310 spent fuel assemblies had been transported from Kori nuclear power plant #1, in which plant the storage…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M.A. Syrunin, A.G. Fedorenko, A.G. Ivanov, A.I. Abakumov, P.N. Nizovtsev, P.G. Loginov, V.P. Solov'ev, A.A. Smolyakov
Abstract:fety of radioactive materials (RM) transportation is under strict control of the international norms of lAEA, aimed to ensure non-…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Y. Rouquette, O. Bernard
Abstract:Considering the development of MOX fabrication and utilization in western continental Europe reactors, and in the framework ofMOX return to…