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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph C. Nichols III, Kirk H. Brownell
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A Report on preliminary design of the Mixed Uranium-Plutonium Oxide (MOX) Fresh Fuel Package (MFFP). Packaging Technology, Inc. (PacTec) is…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Roland Rödel, Peter Zeisler, Thorsten Krietsch
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BAM as German competent authority for mechanical and thermal safety assessment, and for the approval of quality assurance measures in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):D.H. Beddingfield, H.O. Menlove, J. Arenas-Carrasco
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There is concern that a reactor operator can divert nuclear material by incorrectly declaring the number of cycles a fuel assembly has been…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Klaus Ridder
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In 1796 in Europe the first forms of dangerous goods transport (gunpowder) regulations were published. Radioactive material at that time…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Susan L. Collins, Douglas R. Manatt
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The Savannah River Technology Center in cooperation with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has developed software to control the…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Sharon M. DeLand, Bobby Corbell, Dennis Croessmann, Dusty Rhoades, Mark Grohman
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Unattended monitoring of high-value assets in cooperative environments poses significant challenges in the data management arena. For…
Type:JNMM
Volume:29
Issue:2
Author(s):D. L. DONOHUE, Margaret E.M. Tolbert, Paul De Bievre
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For the third consecutive year, an all-day session of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management's Annual Meeting was devoted to…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. J. Self, D. W. Bergmann, J. L. Boles, S. S. Shiraga, P. M. Daling, J. B. Woodbury, L. M. Hay, D. L. McCall
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Packaging and transportation systems used to transfer radioactive materials and wastes onsite (e.g., within Site boundaries where public…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Chihiro Ito, Toshiari Saegusa, Hidetsugu Yamakawa
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ABSTRACT The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that casks (NFT type) transporting high burn-up spent fuel not only meet the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Shirai, M. Wataru, T. Saegusa
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If the natural Uranium hexafluoride (UF6) transport container is involved in a fire test condition as described in the new requirements…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Philip W. Noss, Joseph C. Nichols, Steven R. Streutker
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Spent nuclear fuel from the Hanford N-Reactor is currently stored in pools, the K-East and K-West basins. As part of Hanford’s…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):L. B. Shappert, R. R. Rawl, K. D. Handy, P. B. Lester
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has a large quantity of low-level waste, in the form of concrete monoliths, that are stored in large…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Chris A. Hodge, Ron D. Jeffcoat, Richard S. Thomason
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The term “holdup” refers to the accumulation of nuclear material inside the processing equipment of nuclear facilities. Process holdup…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Kawakami, S. Ozaki, T. Nakatani, M. Matsumoto
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The spent fuel discharged from Japanese LWR will be stored as the recycled-fuel-resources in an interim storage facility. The cask storage…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Abhold, Duc T. Vo, S.C Bourret, Seiji Uchikoshi, Michael Baker, P. Polk, M. Ishikawa, Y. Sato, Y. Yokota
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The improved Plutonium Canister Assay System (iPCAS) is designed to detect gross and partial defects in the declared plutonium content of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):I L S Gray
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The regulations governing the transport of radioactive materials are prepared by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), with the…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):David C. Harding, Yasushi Miura, Yuichiro Ouchi, Kiyoaki YAMAMOTO, Takafumi Kitamura
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This report describes the extension of the validation of previous plane strain finite element analysis (FEA) model results presented in…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Weiguo Ji, Erich Schubrikoff
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According to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regulations, transport containers for spent fuel must be constructed to prevent…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jared S. Dreicer, Sharon L. Seitz, Angela M. Mielke, Caroline M. Boyle, Constance A. Buenafe, James R. Gattiker, Benny J. Martinez, David A. Smith
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The Advanced Surveillance Technology (AST) project at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), funded by the Nonproliferation Research and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):M. Aparo, R.Michael White, D. Miller, J. Carelli, J. Hazeltine
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Changes in technology, operating environments, and the desire for longer operation on backup power have significantly changed development…