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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Ben G. Dekker
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The IAEA Regulations TS-R-1 (ST-1, Revised) 1996 Edition include requirements for packages containing uranium hexafluoride (UF6); these are…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Ernst-Joachim Martin, Judy Wickens
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The Tantalum-Niobium International Study Center, T.I.C., is glad to take this opportunity to speak at PATRAM 2004 and to explain the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Jinying Li
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This article includes two parts 1. The transportation of intermediate-level radioactive liquid waste • Introduction of the operation of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Richard R. Rawl, Richard W. Leggett, Keith F. Eckerman, John R Cook
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The IAEA’s system for exemption of material from the transport regulations is based on the fundamental principle that exemption values…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Ram Srinivasan, Steven E. Sisley, James E. Hopf
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The VSC-24 Ventilated Storage Cask System is a canister-based dry cask storage system that is designed and licensed to provide safe storage…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Dr. Arthur Greenberg, Dr. Thomas I. McSweeney, John Allen, Mark Lepofsky, Mark Abkowitz
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Recent terrorist events, most notably September 11, 2001, have taught us that transportation risk management must be performed with a…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Bernhard Kühne, Helmut Kühl
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In 1983 the world-wide first dual purpose transport and storage cask - a CASTOR® Ic-DIORIT - was loaded in Würenlingen/ Switzerland.…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Byung-Wook Lee, Jung Soo Kim
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The current non-proliferation regime requires strengthening due to the recent events threatening international peace and security. The DPRK…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Phillip Eyre
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This paper examines the application of the “Q system” with respect to the maximum limits of activity permitted in Type B (Type B(U) or Type…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Ioanna Iliopulos, James A. Coffing, Keith Young, Michael Haase, Vytautas Vitkauskas
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In May 2003, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) initiated a program of cooperation with…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David Albright, Cory Hinderstein
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In February 2004, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, considered the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, admitted that he had transferred sensitive…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):V.R. Casella, R. A. Sigg, S. R. Salaymeh, Frank S. Moore, Ronald S. Osteen
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Co-60 was produced in the Savannah River Site (SRS) reactors in the 1970s, and the irradiated cobalt reactor slugs were stored in the L-…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):T. Marks, Joe Glaser, J. A. March-Leuba
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have collaborated to develop an integrated second-generation…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Robert Temps
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s regulations include requirements for quality assurance (QA) programs for entities that engage in…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Rudolf Diersch, Felix Thomas
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The dry storage of spent nuclear fuel from Russian type reactors was successfully realised the first time worldwide in CASTOR® casks…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Edwin S. Lyman
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The international community is reacting far too slowly in upgrading pre-9/11 physical protection standards to cope with post-9/11 threats.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Matt Fox
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As a world leader in the transport of radioactive material (RAM) British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) and its subsidiary Pacific Nuclear…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Krishna P. Singh, Alan I. Soler, Charles W. Bullard
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An impact limiter is an essential appurtenance in a Part 71 transport package. The impact limiter serves to protect the cask contents from…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):André Leber, Wilhelm Graff, Roland Hüggenberg
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With respect to the transport of casks for radioactive material, the proof of the safe heat removal can be accomplished by validated…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David Albright, Cory Hinderstein
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The verifiable, irreversible dismantlement of North Korea’s nuclear weapons and nuclear weaponization program is likely to be a key issue…