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SMART CASK MONITORING SYSTEM
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Richard H. Yoshimura, Paul E. McConnell, Gary S. Brown
Abstract:
This project includes research into appropriate and redundant sensors that would travel externally on or with a cask and would gather…
SOFTWARE FOR THE REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sergey Blagin, Dmitri Moroskin, Rustem Samigulin, Vladimir Angilopov, A. Shevtsov
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The paper describes a software being developed for the Advanced Remote Monitoring System (ARMS) for a nuclear material storage vault. The…
SOME VIEWS ON THE TWO-YEAR REVIEW/REVISION CYCLE OF THE IAEA „REGULATIONS FOR THE SAFE TRANSPORT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL“
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Christel Fasten, Frank Nitsche
Abstract:
The „Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material“ of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna were last issued…
Source Term Analysis in Support of Safeguards Approaches for Uranium Conversion Facilities
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):G. Eccleston, Mark M. Pickrell, M.C. Miller, D.G. Langner, D.H. Beddingfield
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Advanced safeguards approaches require an analysis of activities that may be undertaken looking at the nuclear fuel cycle in its entirety.…
Spent Fuel Sabotage Aerosol Ratio Program and Surrogate Material Test Results
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. A. Molecke, W. Koch, O. Nolte, G. Pretzsch, B. Autrusson, O. Loiseau, T.T. Borek, F. Lange, K.B. Sorenson, N. Slater Thompson
Abstract:
We provide a detailed overview of an ongoing test program that is developing relevant aerosol particle data for some sabotage scenarios on…
Spent Fuel Transport Associated with other Dangerous Goods in Regular Train Units -Assessment of Hypothetical Explosion Impacts
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Viktor Ballheimer, Bernhard Droste, Günter Wieser, Linan Qiao
Abstract:
Continental railway transport regulations (RID) do not exclude the transportation of spent fuel casks in a regular train unit that also…
Spent Fuel Transportation Cask Response to a Tunnel Fire Scenario
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Christopher S. Bajwa, Harold E. Adkins, Judith M. Cuta
Abstract:
On July 18, 2001, a freight train carrying hazardous (non-nuclear) materials derailed and caught fire while passing through the Howard…
Spent Nuclear Fuel Transportation Casks Evaluation for Water In-Leakage
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Mahendra J. Shah, Daniel T Huang, Jack Guttmann
Abstract:
The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) is responsible for licensing commercial spent fuel storage and transportation…
ST - 1 or UN \"Orange Book\". Mexican Trucking Industry Point of view
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Tomas Martinez López
Abstract:
In order to include measures of security in the \"Regulation for the safe transport of radioactive material\" IAEA, ST-1 within the, \"…
Standards for Transport and Storage Components Established by The Atomic Energy Society of Japan and The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Makoto Hirose, Masanori Aritomi, Toshiari Saegusa, Toshiaki Hayashi, Tomoyuki TAKEDA, Kazunari Onishi, Kazuo Kawakami
Abstract:
Since June 1997 the standards/specifications and inspection/certification of various products in Japan have been reviewed by Ministries and…
Statistics on the Traffic of Radioactive Material, and the Resulting Radiation Exposures, in the European Union and Applicant Countries
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. S. Hughes, MT. Lizot, S. Trivelloni, G. Schwarz, J. van Hienen
Abstract:
Radioactive materials of natural or artificial origin are of widespread use across the world and are transported within and between…
Status of Burnup Credit for Transport of SNF in the United States
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Cecil V. Parks, John C. Wagner
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Allowing credit for the reduction in reactivity associated with fuel depletion can enable more cost-effective, higher-density storage,…
Strengthening environmental sampling analysis in the ROK through DOE/MOST collaboration: Initial results of uranium round-robin tests
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joel A. Carter, J. Michael Whitaker, Susan M. Hayes, Khris B. Olsen, Jang Soo Shin, L.R. Riciputi
Abstract:
In 2003, the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) with assistance from the United States Department of Energy (DOE…
STUDY OF ALTERNATIVE CONTROL MEASURES FOR SMALL CENTRIFUGE ENRICHMENT FACILITIES
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Marco A. Marzo, Orpet J. M. Peixoto, H.L. Gonzales, Hugo E. Vicens
Abstract:
The safeguards objectives for enrichment facilities are the detection of the diversion of declared nuclear material and of facility misuse…
Study of the IDGS Technique for Mixed Plutonium-Uranium (MOX) Samples
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Duc T. Vo, T. K. Li, M. Sumi, M. Kobayashi, T. Suzuki
Abstract:
The isotope dilution gamma-ray spectrometry (IDGS) technique has been demonstrated for simultaneously measuring concentrations and isotopic…
Study on Tracking System for Radioactive Material Transport
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Fumitaka Watanabe, Miyuki Igarashi, Tamotsu Nomura, Yoshihiro Nakagome
Abstract:
When a transportation accident occurs, all entities including the shipper, the transportation organization, local governments, and…
Study on Validation of the Thermal Calculation Method and the applicability of the Confinement Monitoring with Full-scale Mock-up Test of Concrete Cask
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Hiroyuki Tsuji, Daiichiro Ito, Kouichi Fujinami, Kouichi Yamamoto, Tatsuo Suyama
Abstract:
We manufactured a full-scale mock-up ventilated concrete cask and carried out thermal experiments under various conditions. All measured…
Summary of Plutonium Oxide and Metal Storage Package Failures
Type:JNMM
Volume:33
Issue:1
Author(s):P. Gary Eller, Richard W. Szempruch, James W. McClard
Abstract:
This article compiles available documented information on failures of containers used to store plutonium-bearing oxide and metal…
Surveillance of quality assurance in the manufacture of spent fuel and HLW transport and storage casks
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Manfred Baden, Thilo Nitz
Abstract:
The purpose of quality assurance measures in the manufacture of packagings for radioactive materials is to ensure that the series sample…
SUSTAINABILITY FOR A SECURE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):William J. Toth, Dr. Rekha S. Pillai, Tim D. Welch, Glen Harrison
Abstract:
Over the last decade, transportation equipment and related systems at a number of sites in the Russian Federation have been upgraded to…