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In September, 2000 the IAEA formally began a two year, continuing regulatory review process. To no one’s surprise, the initial review…
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With the adoption of the 1996 Edition of the “Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material” IAEA began a biennial process for…
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Representatives of all Member States of the IAEA meet once a year in September at the General Conference in Vienna, Austria, to consider…
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Standards and regulations have no intrinsic practical effect without taking into account those who are the object of such standards and…
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The NCS 45 cask family is intended to replace the cask types R52, TN6/1 and TN6/3. These packagings – country of origin France – were in…
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) first published Safety Series No. 6 (1961 Edition) in May 1961 for application to the…
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The Federal Institute for materials research and testing (BAM), Germany, constructed in 2004 a new drop test facility that allows drop…
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MOSAIK® -casks were developed for the transport of different types of radioactive waste. Furthermore, the casks are to be used for a save…
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For 50 years of mass shipments of radioactive materials (RM) in Russia there were not registered both serious radiation effects on the…
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Sending of Samples 1. No radioactive material of class 7 If activity concentration or activity do not exceed 1 x 104 Bq/g or 1 x 107 Bq (2.…
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Among all the various uses of radioactive materials for peaceful purposes, the creation and use of radiopharmaceuticals to diagnose and…
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The Traveller PWR fresh fuel shipping package represents a radical departure from conventional PWR fuel package designs. This paper follows…
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Fires after accidents inside tunnels, such as the July 2001 Howard Street Tunnel fire in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, have raised stakeholder…
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The use of dual material seals, metal and elastomeric for a transportation package, provides a viable option for packages requiring high…
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The company GNB has developed a new dual-purpose cask concept – the CONSTOR® – which fulfills both the safety criteria for storage and for…
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Industry has taken a key role in the development of radioactive transport regulation for many years. There are two main parties that need…
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The purpose of this paper is to perform a thermal analysis of a spent fuel storage cask in order to predict the maximum concrete and fuel…
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Rigid polyurethane foam utilizes a variety of mechanisms to mitigate the thermal assault of a “regulatory burn”. Polymer specific heat and…
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NS-4-FR, Epoxy-Resin, has been widely used as a neutron shielding material for casks. It is recognized that the resin will degrade during…