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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Hyunchul Ju, Miles Greiner, Ahti Suo-Anttila
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The Cask Analysis Fire Environment (CAFE) computer code is designed to accurately predict convection and radiation heat transfer to a…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R.E. Vallée, P.I. Lelong
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American and international standards relative to leakage tests on packages for shipment indicate that the leakage rates of the test…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):C. Mattera, B. Martinotti, H. Issard
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Currently, criticality studies of Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) Mixed OXide (MOX) (uranium and plutonium) fuel assemblies in transport…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Gheorghe VIERU, PhD
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Testing large type B packages is expensive and often limited by the availability of test facilities. As IAEA’s Regulations recommend, an…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Robert Gartz, Rudolf Diersch, Konrad Gluschke
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The CONSTOR® is a steel-concrete-steel sandwich cask design. It was developed with special consideration to an economical and effective way…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):F. Harari
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Within the year 2000, TRANSNUCLEAIRE performed almost 3000 transports of nuclear and radioactive materials. This impressive international…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph C. Nichols III, Kirk H. Brownell
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A Report on preliminary design of the Mixed Uranium-Plutonium Oxide (MOX) Fresh Fuel Package (MFFP). Packaging Technology, Inc. (PacTec) is…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Roland Rödel, Peter Zeisler, Thorsten Krietsch
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BAM as German competent authority for mechanical and thermal safety assessment, and for the approval of quality assurance measures in…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Klaus Ridder
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In 1796 in Europe the first forms of dangerous goods transport (gunpowder) regulations were published. Radioactive material at that time…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. J. Self, D. W. Bergmann, J. L. Boles, S. S. Shiraga, P. M. Daling, J. B. Woodbury, L. M. Hay, D. L. McCall
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Packaging and transportation systems used to transfer radioactive materials and wastes onsite (e.g., within Site boundaries where public…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Chihiro Ito, Toshiari Saegusa, Hidetsugu Yamakawa
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ABSTRACT The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that casks (NFT type) transporting high burn-up spent fuel not only meet the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Shirai, M. Wataru, T. Saegusa
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If the natural Uranium hexafluoride (UF6) transport container is involved in a fire test condition as described in the new requirements…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Philip W. Noss, Joseph C. Nichols, Steven R. Streutker
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Spent nuclear fuel from the Hanford N-Reactor is currently stored in pools, the K-East and K-West basins. As part of Hanford’s…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):L. B. Shappert, R. R. Rawl, K. D. Handy, P. B. Lester
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has a large quantity of low-level waste, in the form of concrete monoliths, that are stored in large…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Kawakami, S. Ozaki, T. Nakatani, M. Matsumoto
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The spent fuel discharged from Japanese LWR will be stored as the recycled-fuel-resources in an interim storage facility. The cask storage…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):I L S Gray
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The regulations governing the transport of radioactive materials are prepared by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), with the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):David C. Harding, Yasushi Miura, Yuichiro Ouchi, Kiyoaki YAMAMOTO, Takafumi Kitamura
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This report describes the extension of the validation of previous plane strain finite element analysis (FEA) model results presented in…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Weiguo Ji, Erich Schubrikoff
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According to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regulations, transport containers for spent fuel must be constructed to prevent…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Jun Shimojo, Hiroaki Taniuchi, Tsutomu Takeda, Katsura Kajihara, Yasuhiro Aruga, Masatosi Sasaki
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Kobe Steel, Ltd. has been producing enriched boron-10 from the spring of 2001, and the unique manufacturing process of borated aluminum…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Y. NOMURA, H. Okuno, K. Suyama
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A guide material to introduce the burnup credit in Japan has been prepared and published in the name of a Guide Introducing Burnup Credit,…