Test and evaluation document for DOT Specification 7A Type A Packaging. Revision 3

Technical Report · Tue Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/207656· OSTI ID:207656

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has been conducting, through several of its operating contractors, an evaluation and testing program to qualify Type A radioactive material packagings per US Department of Transportation (DOT) Specification 7A (DOT-7A) of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Title 49, Part 178 (49 CFR 178). The program is currently administered by the DOE, Office of Facility Safety Analysis, DOE/EH-32, at DOE-Headquarters (DOE-HQ) in Germantown, Maryland. This document summarizes the evaluation and testing performed for all of the packagings successfully qualified in this program.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-87RL10930
• OSTI ID: 207656
• Report Number(s): WHC-EP-0558-Rev.3; ON: DE96006832; TRN: 96:009390
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: 30 Jan 1996
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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