COMPARISON OF EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS FROM DROP TESTING OF A SPENT FUEL PACKAGE DESIGN USING A FULL-SCALE PROTOTYPE MODEL AND A REDUCED-SCALE MODEL

This paper presents a comparison between full-scale prototype and reduced-scale model drop test data in regard to similarity mechanics. Together with a current BAM research project, the paper contributes to the further development of mechanical evaluation methods for safety assessment of RAM transport and storage packages including the transferability of package impact response from reduced-scale models to full-scale packages.