Puncture Evaluation of Shippingport Package*

The Shippingport Atanic Power station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania, is being decomnissioned and dismantled by the Department of Energy (DOE) to return the government-leased property in a radiologically safe condition to its owner, the Duquesne Light Company. Most of the radioactive material inside the reactor pressure vessel (RPV) was removed and transported to the DOE Hanford Reservation in Richlam, Washingtan, for burial. the integral reactor pressure vessel am neutron shield tank (NST) was filled with a lightweight concrete to form a transport package.