SAFETY TEST STATUS OF A RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL TRANSPORT PACKAGE IN SOUTH KOREA

As a spent nuclear fuel storage spaces are not sufficient at some nuclear power plants(NPPS), transport packages of spent nuclear fuels were developed in order to transport within NPP site. Recently, Korean government decided the disposal site for a low level radioactive waste generated from NPPs. So it will be expected to transport these wastes frequently. And some kinds of the transport packages are developing for the purpose of a medical and industrial use. These radioactive materials should be transported with the transport package which is satisfied with requirements stated in Korean domestic regulations and IAEA safety series ST-1[1]. Safety test procedures have been established to produce design data and test results for license. It is important that package integrity such as leak rate and shielding is sustained after test. Moreover, acceleration, strain and temperature data are acquired in drop and fire tests to verify the analysis results. In this paper, it describes the safety tests status for type IP, A and B transport packages in Korea. It also introduced the safety tests facilities as well as the data acquisition system of acceleration, strain and temperature.