Transportation Cask Contamination Weeping: A Program Leading to Prevention**

Year
1992
Author(s)
P. C. Bennett - Sandia National Laboratories
D. H. Doughty - Sandia National Laboratories, USA
W. B. Chambers - Sandia National Laboratories, USA
File Attachment
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Abstract
This paper describes the problem of cask contamination weeping, and efforts to understand the phenomenon and to eliminate its occurrence during spent nuclear fuel transport. The paper summarizes analyses of field experience and scoping experiments, and concentrates on current modelling and experimental validation efforts.