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Washington Savannah River Company (WSRC) operates the Savannah River Site (SRS) in Aiken, SC under contract with the U.S. Department of…
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UKAEA was established to undertake research and development in support of the British nuclear power programme. Sites were established in…
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Transportation risk assessment involves a number of parameters whose values are uncertain. RADTRAN© (hereinafter referred to simply as…
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The transportation of commercial spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) requires participation and cooperation…
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Criticality safety requirements in the U.S. specify that a package must be designed and the contents limited so that a single package is…
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Major issues in the area of transportation and/or storage of radioactive materials are reliability and safety of engineering components.…
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In Germany, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) is the competent authority for the mechanical and thermal design…
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A combined test (neutron irradiation and heating) and a thermal test were performed for neutron shielding materials MREX® applied to MSF…
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High-level waste is generated as a product of the chemical process of reprocessing. Sellafield Ltd has stored such waste at Sellafield in…
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There is no simple and/or single approach to RAM transportation economics. The diversity of situations, depending on the materials…
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The Western Governors and the State of New Mexico have developed a comprehensive program to assure the safe and uneventful transport of…
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The Residues Returns Obligations: COGEMA has been using, for decades, its large experience of Reprocessing in both Gas Cooled reactors (GCR…
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The return of HLW to Germany has started in 1996 with the first attribution of 28 glass canisters to German utilities by COGEMA. After…
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actors burn advanced fuel assemblies to higher burnups, the dry storage systems will be required to accommodate higher heat loads. This is…
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In April 2003, Nuclear Fuel Transport Co., Ltd. (NFT) marked the 30th anniversary of its founding. NFT was established in 1973 and in 1978…
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This paper briefly reviews the package testing at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) since 1960 and then examines the trends in the…
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Direct Rail Services (DRS) has been operating since October 1995, following the decision by parent company, British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL),…
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BNFL use spent fuel flasks to transport LWR fuel from reactors in Europe and elsewhere to Sellafield, Cumbria, UK for reprocessing. The…
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The discharge burnups of spent fuel from nuclear power plants keep increasing with plants discharging or planning to discharge fuel with…
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South Africa has an extensive mining industry, with total mineral sales in 2002 being R140 billion and total mineral exports being R110…