Programme to Develop a Large Transport Container for Transportation of Large Pieces of Contaminated Equipment and Medium Level Waste

The partial or complete dismantling of research and development laboratories, facilities for the production of isotopes, installations for the manufacture of fuel elements in reprocessing plants will be required after a few decades of operation . Some of the equipment i n these facili ties, such as glove boxes, venti - lation piping, filters are too large to be packed i n the presently available type A or B packages. Consequently, their transport is carried out in the frame of special l i cences delivered by the competent authorities on the basis of studies to be submitted and of special provisions with a view to ensure an equivalent safety .