COMMENTS ON THE REQUIREMENTS FOR PACKAGES CONTAINING FISSILE MATERIALS

The Regulations for the Safe Transport of the Radioactive Material are in constant evolution. Draft amendments of the legal texts are regularly suggested by the Member States to improve the texts (cf. [3] for instance). This paper approaches two ambiguous points of the regulation (TS-R-1 [1]): 1. The need of a better specification of the configurations to be analyzed in the criticality studies for packages transported by air when the applicant does not realize the required test sequences; 2. The pertinence of the conditions imposed for the assessment of a 5N array of package under normal conditions of transport (absence of moderation between packages even if rain, fog or snow are usually considered as normal conditions).