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CASE STUDY: OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES IN THE TRANSPORT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL – REM INDÚSTRIA E COMÉRCIO LTDA. BRAZIL
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Denise Bemelmans, Michelle Cristina Barbosa Neves, Helder Nogueira
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As part of the optimization process of radiation protection at REM Indústria e Comércio in Brazil, the operational procedures in the…
CASKS DEVELOPMENT FOR MOX TRANSPORTATION FROM FRANCE TO JAPAN
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Lillian VIALLON, Laurent STACHETTI, Kazuhito TAKEDA
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Needing to transport fresh MOX fuel assemblies from France to Japan, TEPCO and TN International worked together to develop new casks: A…
CATALYTIC MITIGATION OF HYDROGEN RISK DURING WET TRANSPORTATION OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):V. Rohr, R. Chiocca, H. Issard, F. Morfin, S. Derrouiche, F. Bini, J-C Bertolini, J-L Rousset
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Major challenges in the area of wet transportation of radioactive materials are reliability and safety of transportation casks. In most…
CEA/TN International Joint Venture for an International Casks Fleet
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):NULL NULL
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CEA has initiated a ten-year programme (2001-2010), the EMBAL plan, to renew its radioactive transport cask fleet. This will allow to…
CFD SIMULATIONS OF FUEL CLADDING AND BASKET SURFACE TEMPERATURES IN AN MPC RAIL CASK DURING NORMAL TRANSPORT
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Mithun Gudipati, Miles Greiner
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A two-dimensional finite volume model of a 21 PWR Multi-Purpose Canister (MPC) inside a rail cask was constructed. In that cask, fuel is…
CHARACTERIZATION OF SHOCK ABSORBER DEFORMATION BY OPTICAL SURFACE DIGITIZATION
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Klaus-Peter Gründer, Daniel Kadoke, Karsten Müller, André Musolff
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The performance of shock absorbers has been tested in specific regulatory drop tests onto an unyielding target at the BAM drop test…
COMPARISON BETWEEN DIFFERENT PRINCIPLES FOR PACKAGING DESIGNS
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Yves CHANZY, Pierre Malesys
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Over the past years, the continuous increase of burn-up of the used fuel has resulted in higher constraints for the design of transport or…
COMPARISON OF DAYTIME AND NIGHTTIME POPULATION ADJACENT TO INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS IN METROPOLITAN AREAS USING LANDSCAN USA
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Paul E. Johnson
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An article of similar title was published in the International Journal of Radioactive Materials Transport in 1999. The study concluded that…
COMPARISON OF EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS FROM DROP TESTING OF A SPENT FUEL PACKAGE DESIGN USING A FULL-SCALE PROTOTYPE MODEL AND A REDUCED-SCALE MODEL
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas Quercetti, Karsten Müller, Sven Schubert
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This paper presents a comparison between full-scale prototype and reduced-scale model drop test data in regard to similarity mechanics.…
Comparison of the Behavior of a Finned and Unfinned Surface during a Drop test of a Cask onto a Steel Bar
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):NULL NULL
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For the licensing of type B(U) packages according to the IAEA regulations, it has to be demonstrated that the integrity of the confinement…
COMPARISON OF UF6 PACKAGES UNDER CERTIFICATION TEST AND ACCIDENT CONDITIONS
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Carlos Lopez, Douglas J Ammerman, G. Scott Mills, Earl P. Easton, Adelaide Giantelli
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Currently there are three packages approved by the NRC for U.S. domestic shipments of fissile quantities of UF6: NCI-21PF-1, UX-30, and…
COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING TO PREDICT WASTE PACAKGE PERFORMANCE UNDER FIRE ACCIDENT CONDITIONS
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Bill Sievwright, Gordon Turner, Chris Fry
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In the UK, NDA is developing a design safety report for the Standard Waste Transport Container (SWTC) for the transport of intermediate…
CONCEPTION AND PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF DUAL PURPOSE TRANSPORT CASKS WITH ADVANCED SAFETY
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):V.Z. Matveev, A.I. Morenko, V.I. Shapovalov, A.A. Maslov, V.K. Orlov, A.G. Semenov, V.M. Sergeyev, O.I. Uferov, A.M. Visik
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This poster is given up to concept of a new generation of dual-purpose transport casks (transport and temporary storage) with advanced…
Conception of Class “C” package for transportation of spent Russia-made nuclear fuel from research reactors
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):A. Morenko, V. Shapovalov, V.Z. Matveev, V.A. Yakushev, L.V. Barabenkova, ?. Smirnov, S. Komarov, J. Haire, L. Dole, L. Dole
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The problem of international transportations of spent nuclear fuel from research reactors (RR SNF) by air becomes presently more and more…
CONFINEMENT ANALYSIS OF DUAL PURPOSE METAL CASK SUBJECTED TO IMPULSIVE LOADS DURING HANDLING ACCIDENTS
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Shirai, Hirofumi Takeda, T. Saegusa
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Necessity of the interim dry storage of nuclear spent fuel using metal casks has risen year by year. The metal gaskets are used to keep the…
CONSEQUENCES OF A NUCLEAR MATERIAL TRANSPORT SABOTAGE: A GENERAL APPROACH FOR THE CASE STUDY OF SABOTAGE PER USE OF AN ARMOR PIERCING WEAPON
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):B. Autrusson, P. Funk, Olivier Loiseau
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In order to predict the consequences of a sabotage act directed against a transport of nuclear material, the present paper is an attempt to…
CONSEQUENCES OF DROP TEST PARAMETER LIMITATIONS FOR SUBSEQUENT PACKAGE DESIGN SAFETY ANALYSIS
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Frank Koch, Bernahd Droste, Torsten Krietsch
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A drop test result represents only one “point” in the field of parameters, which a package design approval has to consider. One test…
COOPERATION BETWEEN JAPAN AND UNITED STATES ON THE PHYSICAL PROTECTION OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL TRANSPORTATION
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Yuichiro Ouchi, John R. Cochran, Takafumi Kitamura, John C. Matter, J. David Betsill, Ken B. Sorenson
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The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) are conducting a multi-year cooperative research and training…
CRISIS COMMUNICATION IN RADIOACTIVE TRANSPORTATION OR HOW TO PUT LIPSTICK ON A BULL DOG.
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Bernard MONOT
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The presentation will elaborate about the challenge of an efficient crisis communication when involved in a radioactive transportation…
Criticality Risks During Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):NULL NULL
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Risks during transportation of spent nuclear fuel have been addressed in NUREG/CR-4829, Shipping Container Response to Severe Highway and…