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The paper deals with the USSR experience in shipping the commercial WWER-1000 reactor spent fuel in TK-10 and TK-13 casks. The cask designs…
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The number of accidents occuring during shipment of dangerous materials in France varies between 200 and 250 each year. Those concerning…
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Between 1973 and 1988 British Nuclear Fuels plc and its subsidiary company Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited have transported more than 570…
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In the Federal Republic of Germany a possible path for intermediate storage of spent fuel elements is the use of transport and storage…
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The design of the lifting points (trunnions) of packages of radioactive material is part of the safety analysis in the transport licensing…
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The accidents in road transportation of package may be collision ,fall and fire. It is necessary to examine all cases very carefully…
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Full scale drop tests of casks to be licensed as type B(U)- packages according to the IAEA- Regulations are in most cases necessary because…
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This paper discusses an assessment (McConnell et al. 1988), of the probability of breach of containment, which may result in the release of…
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The utilization of the Running Book Inventory (RBI) as an index of control in safeguarding reprocessing plants has been discussed in IAEA…
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Considerable interest has been generated within the past several years concerning the use of new generation video motion detection (VMD)…
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The VACOSS-MIVS Interface System integrates two existing containment and surveillance technologies into a sytem with new operational…
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The January 12,1988 DOE Firearms Safety Order 5480.16, requires that annual appraisals be conducted of all DOE sites and facilities that…
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BNFL and its subsidiary Company, PNTL, design and operate waterfilled L WR fuel transport flasks for the international transport of…
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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…
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The strategy for interim storage of nuclear spent fuel prior to reprocessing is established in Japan. We propose to develop technical…
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The accident at TMI-2 in March of 1979 generated significant fission products and released fuel bearing materials to the reactor coolant…
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Ductile Cast Iron (DCI) has not been yet employed for Cask Material in Japan. This might be because there are insufficient material data on…
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International safeguards will face important challenges in the near future. The aim of this paper is to further discuss some of these…
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General Atomics (GA), under contract to the Idaho Operations Office of the U.S. Department of Energy, is developing two new legal weight…
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There are a number of different two-dimensional dynamic analysis methods used for analyzing impacts of nuclear shipping casks. The simplest…