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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
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Over the past several years the NNSA Defense Programs (DP) nuclear material packaging program (the Program) has worked to transform itself…
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Current limits for non-fixed surface contamination on spent fuel casks are the same as for other transportation package types: 4 Bq cm- ² […
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Since 2004, the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Service of Georgia (Service) with support from U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC), has…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
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The design safety assessment of transport casks for radioactive material in Germany is carried out by the Federal Institute for Materials…
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Under INF code and IAEA standard, radioactive materials in Type B package are transported safely on the sea. To gain the supplementary…
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Agreements between the United States and Russia to dispose of surplus weapon-grade plutonium provided the basis for the United States…
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Because of the evolution of the burn-up of used fuel to be reprocessed, the high activity vitrified residues would not be transported in…
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The IAEA regulations for the safe transport of radioactive materials require a 9-meter free drop onto an unyielding target to demonstrate…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
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The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is located in southeastern New Mexico and operated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
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The preparation technique for Pu reference materials and associated Large Size Dried (LSD) spikes from a uranium and plutonium mixed oxide…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
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Safeguards and Security within the DOE complex has struggled with integrating MC&A and Physical Security together in a single model.…
Type:JNMM
Volume:35
Issue:2
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Risk is a function of the likelihood of an event and the consequence of that event. There is uncertainty associated with estimating risk…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
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Packages used to transport radioactive materials in France must be designed to meet the safety performance requirements when subject to the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
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The risk from a terrorist scenario can be expressed as a function of three variables: the frequency of the scenario, the probability that…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
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Drop tests were conducted with a full scale drop test model for MSF cask (Mitsubishi Spent Fuel cask). The drop attitudes were specified as…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
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With the implementation of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in the 1970s, the International Atomic Energy Agency…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
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Large contaminated or activated objects from replacement of components in nuclear power plants or from decommissioning have sometimes to be…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
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Natural UF6 was transported from Canada to Japan using surface and ocean transport. The surface transport in Canada was made from the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
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In 2005, before implementing the Unattended Monitoring System (UMS), the IAEA and national safeguards inspection efforts used about 70% of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
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Research Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel (RRSNF) has successfully been transported from Japan to the United States 16 times since the foreign…