A radioactive waste transportation package monitoring system for normal transport and accident emergency response conditions
Shipments of radioactive material (RAM) constitute but a small fraction of the total hazardous materials shipped in the United States each year. Public perception, however, of the potential consequences of a release from a transportation package containing RAM has resulted in significant regulation of transport operations, both to ensure the integrity of a package in accident conditions and to place operational constraints on the shipper. Much of this attention has focused on shipments of spent nuclear fuel and high level wastes which, although comprising a very small number of total shipments, constitute a majority of the total curies transported on an annual basis. This report discusses the shipment of these highly radioactive materials.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 6962243
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-91-2671C; CONF-920905-45; TTC-1140; ON: DE93002458
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 10. international symposium on the packaging and transportation of radioactive materials: PATRAM '92, Yokohama (Japan), 13-18 Sep 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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EMERGENCY PLANS
MONITORING
SPENT FUELS
ENERGY SOURCES
FUELS
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
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RADIOACTIVE WASTES
REACTOR MATERIALS
TRANSPORT
WASTE MANAGEMENT
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