PERFORMANCE OF A CONTAINMENT VESSEL CLOSURE FOR RADIOACTIVE GAS CONTENTS

Conference · Fri Jul 09 00:00:00 EDT 2010

OSTI ID:983150

Blanton, P; Eberl, K

This paper presents a summary of the design and testing of the containment vessel closure for the Bulk Tritium Shipping Package (BTSP). This package is a replacement for a package that has been used to ship tritium in a variety of content configurations and forms since the early 1970s. The containment vessel closure incorporates features specifically designed for the containment of tritium when subjected to the normal and hypothetical conditions required of Type B radioactive material shipping Packages. The paper discusses functional performance of the containment vessel closure of the BTSP prototype packages and separate testing that evaluated the performance of the metallic C-Rings used in a mock BTSP closure.

• Research Organization: Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC09-08SR22470
• OSTI ID: 983150
• Report Number(s): SRNL-STI-2010-00410; TRN: US1004546
• Resource Relation: Conference: INMM 51st Annual Meeting
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING
CLOSURES
CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS
DESIGN
PERFORMANCE TESTING
TRITIUM
TRANSPORT
CONTAINERS
GASKETS