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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard F. Zalenski
Abstract:To resolve potential concerns on the integrity of the fuel storage pool at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), a highly accurate…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Rodney K. Wilson
Abstract:This paper discusses the requirements and issues associated with the transportation of surplus fissile materials in the United States. The…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Miles Greiner, S. Shin, R.A. Wirtz
Abstract:The objective of this work is to compare the response of intact and damaged versions of the 125-ton Multi-Purpose Canister (MPC) rail…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):I L S Gray, I.F. White
Abstract:The present IAEA Transport Regulations (1985, as amended 1990) total four separate documents. Only the first of these contains the actual…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):D Raffestin, T. Schneider, H-J. Fett, F. Lange, G. Schwarz, J. Lombard, J.-Y. RECULEAU
Abstract:A transport risk assessment study has been completed on behalf of the French Nuclear Protection and Safety Institute (IPSN), France, the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):C. V. Parks, B. Broadhead
Abstract:The staff of the Nuclear Engineering Applications Section (NEAS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have been involved for over 25…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Floyd P. Henry, C.W. Williamson
Abstract:Polyurethane foam has been used as a protective medium in nuclear material transportation containers for over 30 years. Other materials…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jonathan Sanborn, Leslie G. Fishbone
Abstract:Preliminary estimates of the inspection effort to verify a Nuclear Material Cutoff Convention are presented. The estimates are based on a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Debra Rutherford, Dennis L. Mangan, Keith M. Tolk, Lonnie Moore, Calvin D. Jaeger, Ron W. Moya, Bryan Fearey
Abstract:The Department of Energy's Office of Fissile Material Disposition (FMD) is analyzing long-term storage and disposition options for surplus…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):I.G. Waddoups, Cal Jaeger
Abstract:As a result of a number of events the inventory of fissile materials no longer in nuclear weapons in the United States is increasing. This…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William C. Floyd, Gordon Hough
Abstract:The Nuclear Waste Policy Act, as Amended,1 directed the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish an organization for the purpose of managing…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David W. Crawford
Abstract:Safeguards and security policies within the Department of Energy (DOE) have been implemented in a graded fashion for the protection,…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Klaus Ridder
Abstract:Hazardous matcnals carnage m Europe IS governed by complicated regulations However. what good arc the best regulations 1fthey arc not being…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H. Stelzer, Rudolf Diersch, G. Dreier, N. Ulrich
Abstract:GNB Gesellschaft fur Nuklear Behalter mbH has a long-term experience in developing casks for the transport and storage of spent-fuel…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M. Wataru, A. Kosaki, O. Katoh, H. Fujiwara, Jun NOBE
Abstract:In the IAEA's Transport Regulations of 1996, it is planned that a thermal test requirement is imposed on packages shipping natural uranium…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Giuseppe Forasassi, A. Orsini, B. Rapone
Abstract:Many years ago ENEA and the University of Pisa developed a research program to design a fissile material transport packaging manufactured…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Paul McConnell, Ken B. Sorenson, M.H. Carter, M. P. Keane, V.F. Keith, R.J. Heid
Abstract:Sea RAM is a multi-year Department of Energy (DOE) project designed to validate the safety of shipping radioactive materials (RAM) by sea.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M. Kubo, H. Matsushima, T. Kitamura, T. Ito
Abstract:The dedicated plutonium transport ship Akatsuki-Maru which left Cherbourg port in France in November. 1992 and then sailed down the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Kaluba Chitumbo, Susan Pepper, W. M. Resnik, S. P. Kadner
Abstract:With assistance from the U. S. Program for Technical Assistance to IAEA Safeguards (POTAS), Aquila Technologies Group developed the Tamper-…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Ueki, A. Ohashi, N. Nariyama, S. Hode, Takatoshi Hattori, S. Nagayama, T. Fujita, K. Hattori, Y. Anayama
Abstract:Many shielding experiments and analyses have been reported on the shielding effect of materials, and some benchmark or mock-up experiments…