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Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):R.Michael White, M. Ondrik, S. Kadner, W. Doyle, K. Brown
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Of the various roles fulfilled by the US Support Program (USSP), one of the most important has been to ensure that products meet the IAEA's…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):JOERG D. JAHN
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In Germany, transports of security classes I and II (SC I, II) are authorised and carried out, based on the national Physical Protection…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Rajesh Garg
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A major regulatory issue raised during the development of IAEA Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material No. ST-1 was the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):A.N. Nandakumar
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A tanker which was transporting ten metric tons of liquefied petroleum gas enriched with propylene overturned on an urban fly-over and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jon R. Hurd, Phillip M. Rinard, Richard Siebelist, John R. FitzPatrick
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An opportunity arose to measure the same three HEU metal items in both an AWCC and a shuffler that had been calibrated with the same…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Y. S. Cha
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Thermal analysis of the ES-2M package has been conducted by using the HEATING computer code for both Normal Conditions of Transport (NCT)…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Susumu Mitake, Jun NOBE, Yoshiyuki TSUJI, Naohito WATABE
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As a trial use of INTERTRAN2 code for evaluating risk of radioactive material transport in Japan, an analysis was made for road transport…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.A. Mullens, J.T. Mihalczo, L. G. Chiang, J.E. Breeding, J.A. McEvers, R.W. Wysor, J.K. Mattingly
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Proper operation of the Nuclear Identification Materials System (NMIS) processor can be verified using computer-generated inputs [BIST (…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Hyunchul Ju, Miles Greiner, Ahti Suo-Anttila
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The Cask Analysis Fire Environment (CAFE) computer code is designed to accurately predict convection and radiation heat transfer to a…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Croft, R.J. Estep, B.M. Young, D. Martancik, S. Melton
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Canberra Industries and LANL have collaborated in designing a next-generation Integrated Box Interrogation System, IBIS, to meet the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R.E. Vallée, P.I. Lelong
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American and international standards relative to leakage tests on packages for shipment indicate that the leakage rates of the test…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Steven P. Kadner, Dr. Elizabeth Turpen
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Throughout the years, the nature of verification has evolved as practical experience increases and as verification objectives become…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):C. Mattera, B. Martinotti, H. Issard
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Currently, criticality studies of Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) Mixed OXide (MOX) (uranium and plutonium) fuel assemblies in transport…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Gheorghe VIERU, PhD
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Testing large type B packages is expensive and often limited by the availability of test facilities. As IAEA’s Regulations recommend, an…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Robert Gartz, Rudolf Diersch, Konrad Gluschke
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The CONSTOR® is a steel-concrete-steel sandwich cask design. It was developed with special consideration to an economical and effective way…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):B Burrows, W.T. Stanley, C. Xerri, M. Boella, A. Colin, M. Crousilles, E. Haas, P. Jaunet, W. Koehne, C. Koutsoyannopoulos, J. Patten, E. Pujol
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MOX fuel has been fabricated in Europe for over 30 years and marries well-established fuel fabrication processes with mature plutonium…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):F. Harari
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Within the year 2000, TRANSNUCLEAIRE performed almost 3000 transports of nuclear and radioactive materials. This impressive international…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):V. Sukhoruchkin, N. Nicole Nelson-Jean, Garry Tittemore, Parker O’ Shell, S. Antipov, E. Melkhov, N. Ponomarev-Stepnoi, Admiral N. Yurasov
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U.S. MPC&A cooperation with the Russian Federation (RF) Navy began with a Joint Statement signed in 1996 to protect Highly Enriched…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):H.O. Menlove, N. Ensslin, D.R. Mayo, W. Geist, J. Lestone
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We have developed a new model for calculating the expected yield of cosmic-ray spallation neutrons in a Cargo Container Counter, and we…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David Kostorowski
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The Department of Energy's (DOE) Material Protection Control and Accounting (MPC&A) program continues to place a high priority on…