Over-the-Road Testing of Radioactive Materials Packagings•

Sandia National Laboratories has an ongoing program to characterize the environments encountered during normal surface transport of radioactive materials. This effort consists of obtaining experimental data from both road simulator and over-the-road tests and of analyzing the data to obtain numerical models to simulate those environments (Glass and Gwinn, 1986, 1987, 1989; Gwinn et al., 1991). These data and models have been used to define the design basis for resistance to shock and vibration and the requirements for tiedowns of truck-transported radioactive materials. This work is in conjunction with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards development for radioactive materials transport.