Initiation of depleted uranium oxide and spent fuel testing for the spent fuel sabotage aerosol ratio program.
- U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Institut de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire, France
- Fraunhofer Institut fur Toxikologie und Experimentelle Medizin, Germany
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Gesellschaft fur Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit, Germany
- Argonne National Laboratory
The authors provide a detailed overview of an on-going, multinational test program that is developing aerosol data for some spent fuel sabotage scenarios on spent fuel transport and storage casks. Experiments are being performed to quantify the aerosolized materials plus volatilized fission products generated from actual spent fuel and surrogate material test rods, due to impact by a high-energy-density device. The program participants in the United States plus Germany, France and the United Kingdom, part of the international Working Group for Sabotage Concerns of Transport and Storage Casks (WGSTSC) have strongly supported and coordinated this research program. Sandia National Laboratories has the lead role for conducting this research program; test program support is provided by both the US Department of Energy and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The authors provide a summary of the overall, multiphase test design and a description of all explosive containment and aerosol collection test components used. They focus on the recently initiated tests on 'surrogate' spent fuel, unirradiated depleted uranium oxide and forthcoming actual spent fuel tests, and briefly summarize similar results from completed surrogate tests that used non-radioactive, sintered cerium oxide ceramic pellets in test rods.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 964598
- Report Number(s):
- SAND2004-4227J; TRN: US0903876
- Journal Information:
- Proposed for publication in Packaging, Transport, Storage and Security of Radioactive Material (Ramtrans Publishing)., Journal Name: Proposed for publication in Packaging, Transport, Storage and Security of Radioactive Material (Ramtrans Publishing).
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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