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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Akira Tao, Hiroyuki Morita
Abstract:We have succeeded in an application of the Rigid Polyurethane Foam (R-PUF) to shock absorber for a transport cask. In case of drop event at…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Akihiro Shin, Hiroaki Arai, Masanori Goto, Soichiro Okazaki, Takaaki Yamada, Hiroshi Azuma
Abstract:Concrete cask system is widely used in the United States, but it has not been put into practical use in Japan. To apply the concrete cask…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Annette Rolle, Viktor Ballheimer, Tino Neumeyer, Frank Wille
Abstract:The containment systems of transport and storage casks for spent fuel and high level radioactive waste usually include bolted lids with…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Malinda S. Devaney, Nichole White, Kimberly K. Anderson
Abstract:During a series of consultancy meetings at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to develop a technical document that assists in…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Brian Craig, Lucas Vander Wal, Kevin Byrne, Yung Liu, James Shuler
Abstract:ARG-US (meaning “Watchful Guardian”) Remote Area Modular Monitoring (RAMM) is a remote, “unattended” monitoring system with a two-layered…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Zenghu Han, Ronald Pope, Yung Liu, James Shuler
Abstract:The U.S. Department of Energy Packaging Certification Program, Office of Environmental Management sponsors a training course on the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Edward Ketusky, Lynh Nugyen
Abstract:The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Used Fuel Disposition Campaign (UFDC), in collaboration with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Commie Byrum, Ken Martin
Abstract:On a daily basis in the United States, multiple shipments of Category 1 and 2 radiological materials are transported within and across our…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Marika Debruyne, Benoit ECKERT, Frank Wille, Florence Gauthier, Karim Ben Oughrem, Igor Le Bars, Anne-Cécile Jouve, Nathalie Cordier
Abstract:The safety demonstrations realized by applicants in the case of approval request for the package designs containing enriched UF6 have to…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Robert A. Joseph, Mark Nutt
Abstract:The US Department of Energy (DOE) is developing solutions for long-term sustainable management of the nation’s spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Wim Boeckx, Robby Vandendries, Xavier Van Mierloo
Abstract:Loading high and intermediate-level radioactive waste into type B packaging is challenging. Often waste is stored in drums that need to be…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Anna Wikmark, Sanna Engqvist, Mikael Hammarstrom
Abstract:The systems installed to provide physical security are a mixture of servers, clients and products best be described as Internet of Things.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Shoko Kakiuchi
Abstract:Building of the new LLW transporting ship1. Purpose NFT owns the LLW transporting ship, Seiei-maru, which has transported about 300…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Erica Bickford, Mark Abkowitz, Elizabeth Helvey, Anthony Leshinskie, Mike Stead
Abstract:The US Department of Energy (DOE) is planning for future large-scale transportation of commercial spent nuclear fuel (SNF) from multiple…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Kathryn Karius, Fletcher Davis, Lisa Lee
Abstract:The Cadmium Rod Cask (the Cask) is a 70-ton spent fuel shipping cask that contains legacy irradiated cadmium reactor safety and control…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Karen Owen-Whitred, Anna Lee
Abstract:The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) is the federal regulator for nuclear energy and materials in Canada. The CNSC’s mandate…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Arnaud Cazalet
Abstract:Studsvik has sent three shipments of irradiated fuel on behalf of its customers (TVO, POSIVA, FORTUM): two shipments from Finnish power…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Vincent Léger, Aurélien Dalesme, Stavros Kitsos, Stéphane Nallet
Abstract:The latest IAEA recommendations (2012, SSR-6) request that, under routine conditions of transport, shielding analyses take into account…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Dr. Linus Bettermann
Abstract:CASTOR® casks by GNS comprise a success over four decades. Meanwhile more than 1400 CASTOR® casks have been loaded and safely transferred…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Juergen Skrzyppek, Dirk Becher, Michael Koebl
Abstract:For more than 40 years the German company GNS Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service mbH has de-signed and manufactured CASTOR® casks for the…