Technical Specification for Design, Fabrication, Use and Maintenance of Tie-Down System

IAEA Safety Series n°6 states that to ensure compliance with the Regulation the programs of quality assurance must be put in practice either for design, manufacture, testing , documentation, use and maintenance and inspection of all packages or for transport and intransit storage operations. Therefore in view of a standardisation coming from Q.A. criteria, the Italian Competent Authority for transport of radioactive material (ENEA-DISP) is preparing a technical guide for the design, construction, use and maintenance of tie-down system for road transport of packages containing radioactive materials. The paper shows some phases of the program started by ENEA-DISP for the redaction of the technical guide.