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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):V. Rohr, R. Chiocca, H. Issard, F. Morfin, S. Derrouiche, F. Bini, J-C Bertolini, J-L Rousset
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Major challenges in the area of wet transportation of radioactive materials are reliability and safety of transportation casks. In most…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):NULL NULL
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CEA has initiated a ten-year programme (2001-2010), the EMBAL plan, to renew its radioactive transport cask fleet. This will allow to…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Mithun Gudipati, Miles Greiner
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A two-dimensional finite volume model of a 21 PWR Multi-Purpose Canister (MPC) inside a rail cask was constructed. In that cask, fuel is…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William T. Pratt, K. A. Bobrova, Lorilee Brownell
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Work on the implementation of Material Protection, Control and Accounting (MPC&A) Operations Monitoring (MOM) systems at Federal Atomic…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):V. P. Struyev, S. I. Kosmin, I. T. Guriyev
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In the 1990's, the Institute, being aware of changes in government policies, conducted an analysis of projected government acquisitions;…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Cameron Coates, B. L. Broadhead
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Current guidance considers highly radioactive special nuclear materials to be those materials that, unshielded, emit a radiation dose [rate…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ronald M. Keyser, Timothy R. Twomey
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In the interdiction of illicitly trafficked Special Nuclear Material (SNM) the neutron signal is a valuable adjunct to the gamma-ray…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ronald M. Keyser, Timothy R. Twomey, Sam Hitch
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To address the need for high resolution detection systems to be used in portal monitors and mobile search systems, an integrated gamma ray…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Shivakumar Sitaraman, Young S. Ham
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This article presents early results from Monte Carlo radiation transport calculations aimed at characterizing a novel methodology being…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark K. Snell, Kim W. Mitchiner
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Sandia National Laboratories is investigating the application of a rigorous statistical, model-based test and evaluation methodology for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R. K. Berg, D. L. Haggard, J. R. Hilliard, A. V. Mozhayev
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The 212-N Building at the Hanford Site held fifteen large crates containing glove boxes and process equipment associated with the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Klaus-Peter Gründer, Daniel Kadoke, Karsten Müller, André Musolff
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The performance of shock absorbers has been tested in specific regulatory drop tests onto an unyielding target at the BAM drop test…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Q.S. (Bob) Truong, R. Saper
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The Canadian Safeguards Support Program (CSSP) is actively investigating techniques to exploit synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery for…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Q.S. (Bob) Truong, N. Herber
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As part of its mandate, the Canadian Safeguards Support Program (CSSP) is responsible for providing assistance to the IAEA in knowledge…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Yves CHANZY, Pierre Malesys
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Over the past years, the continuous increase of burn-up of the used fuel has resulted in higher constraints for the design of transport or…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Paul E. Johnson
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An article of similar title was published in the International Journal of Radioactive Materials Transport in 1999. The study concluded that…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Thomas Quercetti, Karsten Müller, Sven Schubert
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This paper presents a comparison between full-scale prototype and reduced-scale model drop test data in regard to similarity mechanics.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):NULL NULL
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For the licensing of type B(U) packages according to the IAEA regulations, it has to be demonstrated that the integrity of the confinement…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Carlos Lopez, Douglas J Ammerman, G. Scott Mills, Earl P. Easton, Adelaide Giantelli
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Currently there are three packages approved by the NRC for U.S. domestic shipments of fissile quantities of UF6: NCI-21PF-1, UX-30, and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):H. Ottmar, S. Abousahl, P. Schwalbach, N Albert, K Lützenkirchen
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COMPUCEA is a transportable system for accurate on-site analytical measurements of uranium elemental assay and enrichment during the…