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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. P. Malone
Abstract:Considerable interest has been generated within the past several years concerning the use of new generation video motion detection (VMD)…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):C. S. Johnson, B. Richter, G. Stein, H. H. Remagen, R. L. Martinez
Abstract:The VACOSS-MIVS Interface System integrates two existing containment and surveillance technologies into a sytem with new operational…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Earl A. Maxie
Abstract:The January 12,1988 DOE Firearms Safety Order 5480.16, requires that annual appraisals be conducted of all DOE sites and facilities that…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):W.E. Swindlehurst, E. Livesey, D. Worthington
Abstract:BNFL and its subsidiary Company, PNTL, design and operate waterfilled L WR fuel transport flasks for the international transport of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H.R. Yoshimura, V. Bateman, T.G. Carne, D.L. Gregory, S.W. Attaway, D. R. Bronowski
Abstract:A 9-m drop test was conducted of a 1/3-scale-model spent fuel cask onto an unyielding target. The structural response of the impact…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):N. Urabe, Y. Harada
Abstract:The strategy for interim storage of nuclear spent fuel prior to reprocessing is established in Japan. We propose to develop technical…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Barry B. Brosey, Carl H. Distenfeld
Abstract:The accident at TMI-2 in March of 1979 generated significant fission products and released fuel bearing materials to the reactor coolant…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):T. Kusakawa, T. Kishi, H. Ohtsubo, S. Shiomi, H. Takaku, C. Ito, Toshiari Saegusa
Abstract:Ductile Cast Iron (DCI) has not been yet employed for Cask Material in Japan. This might be because there are insufficient material data on…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Anita Nilsson, Paul Ek
Abstract:International safeguards will face important challenges in the near future. The aim of this paper is to further discuss some of these…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. J. Meyer, R. M. Grenier, M.F. Jensen
Abstract:General Atomics (GA), under contract to the Idaho Operations Office of the U.S. Department of Energy, is developing two new legal weight…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H. Shatoff, M. A. Koploy
Abstract:There are a number of different two-dimensional dynamic analysis methods used for analyzing impacts of nuclear shipping casks. The simplest…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark Snell, William Romine, D.S Fortney
Abstract:Many analytic tools have been developed for evaluating the effectiveness of a facility's safeguards and security system against theft of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):L.J. Smith
Abstract:Imagine the ideal training course. The training material is relevant. The instruction is sometimes humorous, but the humor relates to the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H. Abe, Y. Esashi, H. Ohnuma, S. Kobayashi, T. Saegusa, Hidetsugu Yamakawa, K. Maruoka
Abstract:In order to transport spent fuel, both a wet-type transport cask using water as the coolant and a dry-type transport cask using gas as the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):N.R. Keltner, K.B. Sobolik, J.L. Moya
Abstract:Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) utilizes fire test facilities to subject military components and nuclear material shipping containers to…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):G. Sert, B. Savomin, Y. Rouquette
Abstract:The reprocessing of spent fuel generates different kinds of wastes. Among them fission products and non fissile actinides represent 98…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.H. Alexander, A.E. Luik, L.D. Rickertsen
Abstract:The U.S. Department of Energy (the Department) has been charged by law with the responsibility to site, design, construct, operate, and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. W. Cashwell, B.W. Welles, M.J. Welch
Abstract:United States Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations require a postnotification report from the shipper for all shipments of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):S. Tashiro, T. Nomura, Y. Yamada, T. Takeda, S. Karigome, T. Noura, J. Nakayama
Abstract:The Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERJ) is currently engaged in a study of High Leve l Waste Vitrified Waste (HLW) at the Waste…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M.W. Wendel, G.E. Giles
Abstract:Predicting specific thermal behavior of spent fuel assemblies involved in an accident during shipping is difficult because of the geometric…