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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:On July 20, 1986 the first shipment of TMI-2 Fuel Debris departed Three Mile Island in the NuPac 125-B rail cask. The shipment arrived via…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:In Sweden, electrical production from the first commercial nuclear plant commenced in 1972, i.e. 17 years ago. There are now 12 nuclear…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:As a consequence of continuing widespread use of nuclear power, increasing, attention is being focussed worldwide on the disposal of spent…
Type:JNMM
Volume:17
Issue:3
Abstract:Rod consolidation has the potential for significantly increasing the on-site storage capacity of reactor's sent fuel storage pools. The…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The paper explores the concept of distributed processing within both access control and supervisory control and data acquistion (SCADA)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The Department of Energy's Order governing management of radioactive waste, DOE Order 5820.2A, was revised effective September 26, 1988.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:Type A packagings were first introduced into the Unit ed States Department of Transportation (DOT) r egulations in 1968. Seven years later…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:The purposes of the tests are to confirm the validity of the design and an evaluation method applied for safety analyses of the JMTR spent…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:Due to the fact, that in FRG one has to demonstrate, that type B(U)- packagings not only withstand the mechanical loads concerning IAEA-…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:ENEA has in storage at its pilot reprocessing plants more than one hundred spent fuel elements arising from ENEL's (the Italian Electricity…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:Designing systems for transporting radioactive material (RAM) has gained Increasing importance as the need for transporting and storage of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:The adaptation of a batch follow up technique to the production line of a commercial mixed oxide fuel assembly facility is described and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:Static and dynamic analyses of an impact limiter for a spent fuel cask have been performed using the finite element analysis code PRONT02D…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:Hypothetical accident conditions for testing transport casks require the cask to withstand a 9-meter drop onto an unyielding target at a…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:Spent fuel can be stored at a reactor site in accordance with 10 CFR 72. One method of storage is to use a cask to contain and shield the…
Type:JNMM
Volume:17
Issue:4
Abstract:In 1967, a committee at Brookhaven National Laboratory suggested that the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) should establish a safeguards…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Abstract:Manpower is the most expensive single feature of a security system. In a climate of close scrutiny for government expenditures the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:As one of the most important producer of nuclear electricity in the world, EDF is concerned by all the aspects of the transport of nuclear…
Type:JNMM
Volume:18
Issue:1
Abstract:The ability of this country to move forward into and have an impact on the nuclear technology of the 21st century will be dependent upon…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Abstract:The overall weight of a spent-fuel transport cask is minimized when its gamma shield consists of depleted uranium only; however, because of…