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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has developed MSF-57BG spent fuel transport and storage cask. Newly developed forged steel is…
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A new type of Eco-friendly Spent Fuel Transport and Storage Cask named KATS has heen developed, of which the main gamma shielding is…
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B-AL (Boron-Aluminium) plate is commonly used as a neutron absorption material for the basket plate of casks. For material property reasons…
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Low-level radioactive waste generated from the operation of nuclear power plants is currently being stored in 200-L metal drums and…
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For many years BNFL (now Sellafield Ltd) has transported spent nuclear fuel to Sellafield via Barrow using specially designed rail vehicles…
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Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co., Ltd.(KHNP) is developing two kinds of IP-2 packages to transport low and intermediate radioactive waste(…
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Cask system for interim storage of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) should have sufficient integrity to comply with both transport and storage…
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The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) is working to identify preliminary national suites…
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In the context of the research on the mechanical safety of packages for radioactive material, fullscale drop tests with spent fuel and HAW…
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The NCS 45 packaging is intended for a variety of contents ranging from irradiated PWR, BWR and FBR fuel pins and parts of fuel pins to non…
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Between 1990 and 1992 BAM carried out in cooperation with Sandia National Laboratories a series of drop tests with a HLW transport cask…
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The impact compressive tests for redwood were performed supposing the actual drop test condition and the energy absorbing property data…
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The shipping packages of radioactive materials must meet the criteria for the Hypothetical Accident Conditions (HAC) specified in the Code…
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Beginning as early as the 1960s, concerns were voiced as to the adequacy of the package test standards imposed by the Transport Regulations…
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During the 1950’s to the 1970’s, when many new packages were being designed for the transport of a wide variety of radioactive materials,…
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Three separate fire test programs exposing casks beyond the regulatory thermal test requirements were performed by Sandia National…
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As part of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) overall review of the performance of transportation casks under severe accident…
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International regulations for transport of fissile materials require multilateral approval of each package design. In addition, approvals…
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In recent years the requirements for safety case management for transport packages have increased greatly. Often the Package Design Safety…
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Egypt has unique problem the, Suez Canal, there is a major problem concerning the passage of the nuclear powered and possibly nuclear armed…