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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Mike Yaksh, Ph.D., PE, S. Alan Lin
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Higher capacity baskets for storage and transport ofspent fuel provide an advantage ofALARA during loading operations and optimal use of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Hiroki TAMAKI, Tadashi Kimura, S. HODE, Junichi Kishimoto, Tomofumi YAMAMOTO
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Transport and storage cask for spent fuels is used for transport and storage of spent fuels. Integrity of containment system and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Satoshi ITOOKA, Kunio Maruoka, Masami KATO
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Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES) will perform a welding inspection of dry cask for the spent fuel which will be one of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):F. Wille, V. Ballheimer, B. Droste
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In this paper the IAEA regulatory 1m puncture bar drop test is considered from the viewpoint of using reduced-scale model packages. The…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Pierre Malesys
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If there were no standards, we would soon notice. Standards make an enormous contribution to most aspects of our lives – although very…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Lorne Green
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Transport plays an essential role in bringing the benefits of the atom to people the world over. Each day thousands of shipments of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Chi-Fung Tso, Bill Sievwright
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The Transport Container Standardisation Committee (TCSC) is a UK nuclear industry committee whose main function is to maintain and develop…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Mark Hawk, Erich Opperman, Ronald Natali
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Environmental Management (EM), is actively pursuing activities to reduce the radiological…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Marcelo del Valle, M. Alex Kramer, Miles Greiner, Carlos Lopez, Ahti Suo-Anttila, Ph.D.
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The Container Analysis Fire Environment (CAFE) computer code is being developed at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) to predict the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):NULL NULL
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Oliver Nolte, Wolfgang Koch, Hubert Lödding, Florentin Lange, Reinhard Martens, Eugen Hörmann
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To assess the risks associated with transport accidents involving solid LSA-II and LSA-III materials contained in industrial packages a…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Toshiari Saegusa, Chihiro Itoh, Hidetsugu Yamakawa, Koji Shirai, Hirofumi Takeda, Masumi Wataru
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The present paper introduces current status of spent fuel transport / storage in Japan. It systematically introduces major testings using…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Chihiro Itoh, Toshiari Saegusa, Hidetsugu Yamakawa, K. Shirai
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A drop test of a spent fuel package with transport frame was performed. The drop height was 7.8m and the target was reinforced concrete…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Olaf Oldiges, Jean Michel Boniface
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According to contractual and international obligations, the German Utilities have to return the residues resulting form the reprocessing of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Frank Nitsche, Ingo Reiche, J. Stewart, Stephen Whittingham
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For each design of a package for the transport of radioactive material it is necessary to demonstrate compliance with national and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Stanislav Kuba
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The paper describes the current situation in the spent fuel storage facility at the Dukovany NPP focusing on the operational experience.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):NULL NULL
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Radioactive material needs to be transported for use in public health and industry and for production of nuclear power. Transport of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Andrew T. Kee, Craig R. Tyler
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A replacement packaging has been developed for the existing Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) Fresh Fuel Shipping Container (FFSC). The existing…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):F. Yapuncich, D. Ohayon, L. Mariette, A. Ross, D. Snedeker, S. Hayes
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The Futurix project is an international collaboration program between the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and the French…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Philip W. Noss, Justin M. Griffin
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To transport certain plutonium-beryllium neutron sources, a Type AF fissile material packaging was needed. Since the sources were destined…