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Certified packaging designs are defined by the packaging certification or licensing drawings, which are usually part of the formal safety…
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Author(s):Jean PAVAGEAU, Claude LEROY
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CEA is a technological and research organisation that has an extensive experience in designing, manufacturing, licensing and operating of…
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Author(s):Tim Waste Control Specialists LLC, Dallas, TX, USA
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Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) has contracted with Robatel Technologies to design and build three (3) Type-B Low Level Waste Shipping…
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Author(s):FERNANDA DI GASBARRO, ANTONIO PROIETTI
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Sogin, the state company in charge of the decommissioning of the Italian NPPs and nuclear research centers, is currently managing the…
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Author(s):Paul McConnell, Doug Ammerman, Ken Sorenson
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Tests were performed to directly measure loads on fuel rods in a fuel assembly subjected to conditions of normal truck transport. A PWR…
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Author(s):Holger Völzke, Dietmar Wolff, Ulrich Probst, Sven Nagelschmidt, Sebastian Schulz
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Dual purpose casks for the transportation and storage of spent nuclear fuel and other radioactive materials require very high leak-…
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Author(s):Ahmad Al Khatibeh, Christopher Bajwa, Nancy Capadona
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Denial of shipment has been a concern since the first transport regulations were written; as evidenced in that the first document from the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. D. Clarke, S. A. Pozzi, C. Miller, Mark A. Norsworthy
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Two high-gain, low-threshold neutron measurements were conducted using EJ-309 organic liquid scintillator detector. In the first…
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Author(s):Stephen O'Connor
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As one of the largest shippers of Class 7 (radioactive) material in the world, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) must maintain vigilance…
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Author(s):Jürgen Werle, Eric Bauzon
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The LR65 tank is used to transport uranyl nitrate between AREVAs’ La Hague and Tricastin plants in France. Periodic maintenance is carried…
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Author(s):Bernahd Droste, Frank Wille
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For interim storage of spent fuel or HLW in many countries transport casks are used. The design of these “dual purpose casks” has to be…
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Author(s):O.K. Chopra, D. Diercks, D. Ma, Z. Han, V.N. Shah, S.-W. Tam, R.R. Fabian, Y.Y. Liu
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There is currently no designated disposal site for used nuclear fuel in the United States, which raises the prospect of extended long-term…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David H. Hanks
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The United States of America Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US NRC) is the national regulatory authority (NRA) for NRC licensed nuclear…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Frank Boulton, Thierry MIQUEL, Michel Hartenstein
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The WNTI, through its membership, is dedicated to ensuring the safe, effective and reliable transport of Radioactive Material (RAM). To…
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Author(s):Jeffery G. Arbital, Christopher Smith, Kenneth E. Sanders
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The MD-2 Shipping Container was designed, developed, and certified by the Y-12 National Security Complex. This container will support the U…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sharon Robinson, Charles Alexander, Jeff Allender, Bradley Loftin
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The Department of Energy (DOE) manages an inventory of materials that contains a range of long- lived radioactive isotopes that were…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph Rivers, Oleg Bukharin
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As part of a fuel cycle security rule-making effort, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is developing an approach to take into…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sean Robinson, Ken Jarman, Benjamin McDonald, Tim White, Andrew J. Gilbert
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As nuclear warhead stockpiles are reduced under current and future arms treaties, accurate methods with which to account for stockpiled…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Amy Wilson
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In July 2012, a group of protestors vandalized areas within the boundary of the Y12 National Security Complex. Even though no buildings…
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Author(s):Hirotaka Nojima, Mitsuo Matsumoto, Mitsuru Yata, Tsutomu Matsumoto, Hironori Mizobuchi
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Wet type casks such as NFT type transport casks are mainly used for the transportation of spent fuel in Japan. The hydrogen yield within…