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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):N. Yamada, T. Sagawa, T. Sakurai, S. Karigome, T. Noura
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Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) performs studies using TRU materials which are transported from United States and other…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Joseph D. Rivers
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The Department of Energy (DOE) requires that its facilities conduct performance tests to demonstrate that important safeguards and security…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Tetsuya Nakao, Goro Minakami, Hiroaki Taniuchi, Kyosuke Fujisawa, Yukio Matsukawa, S. Mimura
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Spent fuels have had to be transported from nuclear reactor to reprocessing factory. As it is increasingly the high-bum-up type of spent…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Mark W. Noakes, Bradley Richardson, Barry Burks, Gerald R. Sandness
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Detection, characterization, and excavation of buried objects and materials are important steps in the restoration of subsurface disposal…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K. Shirai, C. Ito, H. Ryu
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Since a cask is vertically oriented during loading in cask-storage, it is necessary to investigate the integrity of the cask against tip-…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):O. Tsumura, S. Shimizu, M. Murata, Y. Tanaka, M. Maruoka, I. Sato, K. Suzuki
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The DCI to be used in manufacturing spent fuel transport and storage casks will be extremely thick (500mm). As a part of the study program…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Jesse Bozone
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The recent introduction of computer assisted surveillance equipment, the associated use of fiber optics in containment seals, and the need…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Richard Gowing, Ian J Hunter, Anthony R Cory, M. Ohashi
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The development and design by Nuclear Transport Limited (NTL) of the BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels plc) Vitrified Residue Flask for returning…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. M. Grenier, R. J. Meyer, Walter J. Mings
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GA is nearing the completion of the final design of two legal weight truck spent fuel shipping casks, the GA-4 Cask for PWR fuel and the GA…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J.N. Cooley, J. Michael Whitaker, W. L. Belew, A. Teufner
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A training video has been produced to address the activities performed by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to verify…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. Diersch, Robert Gartz, Konrad Gluschke, D. Methling
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GNB is introducing two representatives of the new CASTOR cask generation based on the proved, tested and already licensed CASTOR base…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M.H. Watmough, A.J. Cooper, R.W. Croxford
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British Nuclear Fuels plc has for some years been engaged in the transportation of irradiated nuclear fuel from LWR sites in Japan and…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Charles S. Johnson, William R. Hale
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PAPER NOT AVAILABLE. ABSTRACT: The benefits to processing video images in a digital format for surveillance applications can only be…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):Neil R. Zack, William D. Stanbro, Ron L. Hawkins
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Diversion path analysis (DPA) is a technique that evaluates the safeguards measures currently in place at a facility and determines whether…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):N. Watabe, S. Ozaki, T. Iida, H. Akamatsu
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Large amounts of waste classified as \"combustible solids\" such as asphalt packages and plastic packages. are included in the waste…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):Louis Tanguy
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The recommendations expressed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials lay down,…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):S. Iwanaga, S. Uruwashi, K. Mortitani, M. Usami, S. Takahashi, T. Nakatani, M. Sawa
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As one of the development programs of the cask for the post-irradiation examination of the FBR fuels, the drop tests were carried out using…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):O. Kato, Y. Kato, S. Hattori, C. Ito, K. Sirai
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When storing spent fuel in cask, seismic resistance equivalent to Class-As (Japanese Classification for Seismic Degree) can be expected to…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):L. B. Shappert, C.F. Sanders
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In recent years, the Westinghouse Columbia Fuel Fabrication Facility has been faced with increasing pressure from utilities that wished to…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):B. Droste, B. Gogolin, T. Quercetti, D. Rittscher
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Packagings for non-heat-generating radioactive wastes to be disposed of in the planned repository in the F.R.G. - the former \"Konrad\"…