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Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):J. W. Cashwell
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TRANSNET is a compilation of risk. systems analysis, routing and cost models as well as related data pertaining to radioactive materials…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):K.L. Driscoll, J.D. Hurley, L.H. Harmon
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All across the nation there is growing interest in the transport of materials. The issues of interest vary from finding more efficient ways…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):W. Anspach, W. Bergmann, R. Christ
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In the past, transport and storage casks such as the TN 1300 /1/ and TN 900 casks, which were suitable for the fuel assembly storage pond…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H. Bernard, D. Raisonnier, M. Vandorpe
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For obvious reasons related to the sensitive nature of plutonium, its transport is a delicate activity in which safety and security aspects…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):A. Mezrahi, P.F.L. Heilbron, A.M. Xavier
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The present article describes the major aspects related to the packaging and transport operations performed in Goiania, Brazil, following…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M.J.S. Smith, D. Bennett, David Hutchinson, C.R. Eastman
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UK Nirex Ltd (hereafter referred to as Nirex) has been set up by the British nuclear industry to provide facilities for the disposal of…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):E. Acheson
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In October, 1988, the Governor of Idaho refused to allow Rocky Flats to ship any more rail cars of nuclear waste to Idaho because DOE and…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):R. R. Rawl, R.G. Grubb, J.E. Ratledge, R.H. Jones
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In Ma¥ 1988, contamination arrl. elevated radioactivity in a storage pool were detected at the Decatur, Georgia, facility of Radiation…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):L. B. Shappert, M.J. Klimas
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The Federal Waste Management Transportation System, developed for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):N. Carnes, D. Stancell, D. Willaford, L. Blalock
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The United States Department of Energy (DOE) has a strong commitment to ensure the safe and efficient transportation of hazardous materials…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):H.W. Reno, R.C. Schmitt, W.C. Lattin
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In 1987, Fischer et al. noted that the nwnber of shipments of commercial spent nuclear fuel will increase dramatically in the United States…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):J. G. Fleissner, T. W. Coressel, D. A. Freier
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The TRIFID (TRansuranic Isotopic Fraction interrogation Device) system is a second generation plutonium isotopic analysis system which…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):M.A. Kincy, J.M. Freedman
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A f iltered pressure equalization system (FPES) for a waste transportation package has been designed ani qualified to withstard the package…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):B. Cooke
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Trunnions are used on spent fuel element shipping casks for one or more of a combination of lifting, tilting or securing to a transport…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):David Crawford, Kenneth E. Sanders, David A. Myers
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A principal mission of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is to support basic research, energy technology development, and U.S. national…
Type:JNMM
Volume:17
Issue:4
Author(s):Glenn A. Hammond
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The Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Technical Support Organization (TSO) has played a key role over the past 20 years in the…
Type:JNMM
Volume:17
Issue:4
Author(s):Leonard M. Brenner, Samuel C.T. McDowell
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The nation's nuclear program which began during World War II was under strict military control for the development of atomic weapons.…
Type:PATRAM Proceedings
Author(s):W.D. Strunk, C.R. Barlow
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The types and quantities of materi als to be used in the fire resistant phenolic foam for UF-6 cylinder protective overpacks are given in…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Klosterbuer, J. Painter, E.A. Kern, S. Takahashi
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Nondestructive assay systems have been developed to allow data acquisition equipment to operate unattended in an automated mixed oxide…
Type:Annual Meeting Proceedings
Author(s):S. Klosterbuer, G. E. Hosier, C. S. Johnson, W. H. Hale, R. J. Dickinson
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An unattended system for monitoring spent-fuel movement in the storage area of a reprocessing facility has been developed and tested. The…