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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. E. Glass
Abstract:THERMAL BENCHMARKJNG: A STATUS REPORT. A series of benchmarks are being developed for evaluating codes used in the design and licensing of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):B. Schulz-Forberg, H.W. Hübner
Abstract:The transport of radioactive materials (RAM) can be seen as being a part of the transport of dangerous goods. The United Nations has…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Ridder, J.C. Charrault, A. Marchal
Abstract:There are several important dates in the recent history of the transport of dangerous goods in Europe. The first date, 1879, marks the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):O. Koskivirta, P.-E. Hägg
Abstract:The spent fuel from Loviisa's two WWER-440 units is returned to the Soviet fuel supplier, V /0 Atomenergoexport (AEE), under separate…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H. Bernard, D. Raisonnier, Y. Brachet
Abstract:The FS 47 transport system has been designed and developed by Cogema (Compagnie generale des matieres nucleaires) for the transport of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):E.L. Wilmot, L.S. Marks, P.A. Bolton
Abstract:The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has recommended three candidate sites for the first geological repository sites for commercial…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H.W. Curtis, A.J. Salmon, Ian J Hunter, L.G. James, D.R. Knowles, W.G. Milne, M. Old, A. Willis
Abstract:Fuel reprocessing generates wastes. One form is heat generating and is described as high level wastes (HLW). The British Nuclear Fuels…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J.R. Grover
Abstract:During the next decade, there will be a large increase in the transport of immobilized radioactive wastes, either in drums or in other…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):G.J. Quinn, H.M. Burton, W.W. Bixby, T.W. McIntosh, D.J. McGoff, R.J. Barkanic, J.O. Henrie
Abstract:Transportation of the damaged fuel from Unit 2 of Three Mile Island (TMl-2) presented noteworthy technical challenges involving complex…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R.W. Bishop, L.M. Trosten, M.A. BUREN
Abstract:The paper describes the current legal and regulatory structure for transporting nuclear fuel cycle materials in the United States of…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Robert E. Ellefson
Abstract:Inventory differences (ID) in tritium material balance accounts (MBA) can occur with unmeasured transfers from the process or uniueasured…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.T. Gill, Robert E. Ellefson, V.M. Rutherford
Abstract:Aluminosilicate zeolite (molecular sieve) materials are employed widely to remove condensable gases from tritium-containing gas streams. By…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Edward V. Badolato
Abstract:Two major crises of 1986 — the Chernobyl nuclear accident and international terrorism have had the effect of making what we all do even…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):S. Storch, T. Staake
Abstract:A cask has been developed and licensed for the transport and storage of spent pebble bed reactor fuel that combines both safety and economy…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):W.A. Pryor, J.L. Frazier
Abstract:The slightly enriched product UF6 shipped from the enriching plants for the world's nuclear power plants must be protected in order to…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Riley D. Carver
Abstract:The AVLIS program pioneers the large scale industrial application of lasers to produce low cost enriched uranium fuel for light water…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):A.L. Biaggio, J.R. López Vietri
Abstract:After a brief description of the physical and chemical properties of UF and of the products of its hydrolysis, U02F2 and HF, the problem of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):C.M. Hopper
Abstract:A recent nuclear criticality safety analysis of the Department of Transportation (DOT)Specification 6M fissile material pac!cage is…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J.D. Berger, B.C. Gneiting, T. L. Sanders
Abstract:USE OF ROBOTICS FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE SHIPPING AND RECEIVING. Radioactive waste shipping and receiving facilities presently planned for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Tom E. Allen
Abstract:The physical protection planner is faced with a myriad of decisions to make in developing a security system that will meet his goals. Goal…