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More than twenty years ago, the Institute for Nuclear Research Pitesti (INR), through its Reliability and Testing Laboratory, was licensed…
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Hazmat heavy truck shipments represent less than eight percent of all commodity shipments. However, the consequences from a hazmat crash…
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Maintaining flammable gas concentrations below flammable limits in the layers of confinement of transuranic (TRU) waste is a limiting…
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Cost-optimized containers for radioactive waste are needed especially for final disposal of nonheat generating low active waste. In Germany…
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This paper discusses the application of the techniques of multi-attribute decision analysis to the problem of selection of routes for the…
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Polyurethane foam has been widely used as an impact absorbing and thermal insulating material for large radioactive materials packages,…
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In the UK, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is developing transport and operation systems for the movement of radioactive waste to a…
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The Packaging Certification Program (PCP) of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM), Office of Safety Management and…
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The continued ability to transport radioactive material in the public domain is of key strategic importance to the long term viability of…
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AREVA NP as a worldwide PWR fuel provider has to have a fleet of fresh UO2 shipping casks being agreed within a lot of countries including…
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The AREVA/Transnuclear, Inc. (TN) licensed NUHOMS® MP197 Transportation Package is licensed for transportation of used fuel assemblies (…
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The transport of radioactive material, and especially spent fuel, high-level waste, and plutonium, by sea is a source of concern for many…
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The Yucca Mountain Final Environmental Impact Statement (YMEIS) included an analysis of the radiological impacts associated with the…
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For transports of radioactive waste from the Swedish nuclear power plants to the final storage, SFR in Forsmark, special IP-2 containers,…
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This paper describes the Department of Energy (DOE) EM 63 Automated Transportation Management System (ATMS). The ATMS is a web based…
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The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) is the responsible German authority for the design assessment of mechanical…
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This paper presents preliminary findings of a benchmarking project by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste…
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British Energy and its predecessor companies have been transporting irradiated fuel in specifically designed transport flasks between…
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During the design of a new fresh fuel package, testing was performed to examine and optimize the use of polyurethane foam, in combination…
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Applicants have to justify the criticality safety of packages loaded with fresh or spent fuel in the conditions of the 9 m drop test where…