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Nuclear power currently generates around 16 % of the world’s electricity and is set to play an increasingly significant role in meeting the…
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Over the past several years the NNSA Defense Programs (DP) nuclear material packaging program (the Program) has worked to transform itself…
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Current limits for non-fixed surface contamination on spent fuel casks are the same as for other transportation package types: 4 Bq cm- ² […
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The design safety assessment of transport casks for radioactive material in Germany is carried out by the Federal Institute for Materials…
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Under INF code and IAEA standard, radioactive materials in Type B package are transported safely on the sea. To gain the supplementary…
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Agreements between the United States and Russia to dispose of surplus weapon-grade plutonium provided the basis for the United States…
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Because of the evolution of the burn-up of used fuel to be reprocessed, the high activity vitrified residues would not be transported in…
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The IAEA regulations for the safe transport of radioactive materials require a 9-meter free drop onto an unyielding target to demonstrate…
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Packages used to transport radioactive materials in France must be designed to meet the safety performance requirements when subject to the…
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Drop tests were conducted with a full scale drop test model for MSF cask (Mitsubishi Spent Fuel cask). The drop attitudes were specified as…
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Large contaminated or activated objects from replacement of components in nuclear power plants or from decommissioning have sometimes to be…
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Natural UF6 was transported from Canada to Japan using surface and ocean transport. The surface transport in Canada was made from the…
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Research Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel (RRSNF) has successfully been transported from Japan to the United States 16 times since the foreign…
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Since Transnuclear first introduced the use of boron carbide / aluminum metal matrix composites (MMCs) in the TN-68 storage and transport…
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The presentation, introducing into the PATRAM 2007 technical sessions, concentrates in one part on the complex considerations for the…
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Spent nuclear fuel generated at nuclear power plants must be safely stored during interim storage periods. A dry storage cask to safely…
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Concrete cask spent fuel storage system is considered to essentially have an economical advantage and becoming widely used. For vertically…
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Three sets of ageing containers, approaching the end of their service life in new fuel transport, were discovered to have worn screw…
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This paper focuses on the reasons for the denials and delays of shipments of class 7 radioactive materials (RAM), the importance in…
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A series of calculations were performed modeling fast reactor core loadings for conversion ratios varying from 0 to 1 in 0.25 step…