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Title: Water Resistant Container Technical Basis Document for the TA-55 Criticality Safety Program

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1179050· OSTI ID:1179050
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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Criticality safety at TA-55 relies on nuclear material containers that are water resistant to prevent significant amounts of water from coming into contact with fissile material in the event of a fire that causes a breach of glovevbox confinement and subsequent fire water ingress. A “water tight container” is a container that will not allow more than 50ml of water ingress when fully submerged, except when under sufficient pressure to produce structural discontinuity. There are many types of containers, welded containers, hermetically sealed containers, filtered containers, etc.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1179050
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-15-22781
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English