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A shielding and dose rate assessment has been conducted for a variety of transport flasks carrying Mixed Oxide fuels or Vitrified Residues…
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The calculated and measured shielding evaluation of the cask for 12 spent nuclear fuels has been performed to confirm the shielding…
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Since 1979/1980 contracts between the operators of the nuclear power plants and the reprocessing plant in La Hague, France, and Sellafield…
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An exact scaling of all structural components of a package for radioactive materials and their mechanical characteristics is not always…
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Recently, at the interim storage facility of spent fuels many metal casks are used in worldwide. Generally, these metal casks are set with…
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In the current work, numerical simulations and experiments of an 8×8 square array of heater rods within an aluminum enclosure have been…
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At Patram 04 in Berlin, a paper was presented on fire testing of polyurethane foam – a material that is used to mitigate the effect of fire…
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On July 17 1984 at Old Dalby in Leicestershire, UK, a spectacular staged rail crash took place between a 100mph train and a Magnox spent…
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Since 2001 the IAEA “Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material” are directly implemented into the UN “Recommendations on…
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NUREG/CR-6487 and Interim Staff Guidance (ISG)–5 provide guidance on source terms to use when evaluating the ability of spent fuel storage…
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A recent structural analysis of the T-3 Spent Fuel Containment Cask found problems with the design of the attachment system. Assumptions in…
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We will summarize a multinational, multi-phase spent fuel sabotage test program that quantifies aerosol particles produced when the…
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During the last year, SOGIN (the Italian company in charge for decommissioning of Italian NPPs) had to predispose an accelerated…
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In 2002 an amendment of the German Atomic Energy Act fixed – beside a limitation of a certain amount of electricity generation – the stop…
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The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) is one of the two German competent authorities responsible for the Safety…
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Advanced codes and guidelines for the assessment of component safety include fracture mechanics concepts in many cases. Regarding this,…
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Even though there are provisions in NRC guidance for partial burnup credit, spent fuel assemblies have typically been analyzed for…
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The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has proposed a study to demonstrate the robustness of spent nuclear fuel (SNF)…
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This paper overviews current regulatory practices for the assurance of nuclear and radiation safety during railway transportation of SNF on…
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Modern finite element codes used in the design of nuclear material transportation and storage casks can readily calculate the response of…