Functional Testing of Alternative Bag-Out Bag for PF-4 Implementation

Technical Report · Thu Jun 28 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1458917· OSTI ID:1458917

Dumont, Joseph Henry ^[1]; Crum, Shaylynn LaSonja Amechie ^[1]; Zhao, Charles ^[1]; Murphy, Eamonn Conor ^[1]; Reardon, Sean Duncan ^[1]; Lee, So Young ^[1]; Lee, Kwan -Soo ^[1]; Labouriau, Andrea ^[1]; Karns, Tristan M. ^[1]; Smith, Paul Herrick ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

The Department of Energy (DOE) issued DOE M 441.1-1, Nuclear Material Packaging Manual, to protect workers who handle nuclear material from exposure due to loss of containment of stored materials [1]. Currently, the bag-out bags that are used to move material from a glovebox to a long-term storage container are made of a plasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC) material formed into a bag. In 2015, corrosion was identified during the surveillance of Hagan and SAVY-4000 containers [2]. The corrosion that was identified in storage containers has been attributed to HCl gas generation from radiolytic and thermal degradation of the PVC bag-out bag material [3,4].

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1458917
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-18-25708
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English