How we shipped our flip and standard too
- Texas A and M University, College Station, TX (United States)
This paper highlights the planning and handling activities for the shipment of irradiated TRIGA fuel from Texas A and M University to the Argonne National Lab/West (ANL/West) reactor facility at Idaho Falls, Idaho. Attention is focused on the enormous time spent on the planning and preparations prior to the shipment. The actual handling time at the NSCR for three shipping packages containing a total 51 elements was only 4 days, but, the time spent in planning and preparation exceeded 16 months. The fuel was transferred for shipment without incident - and from a health physics standpoint the exercise went very well. Whole body exposures and hand doses were minimal for such a large undertaking. ANL/West health physicists reported contamination of the lifting devices for the HFIR when they received the cask. These pieces were wipe tested and contamination was found to be less than 200 dpm. If they were contaminated we were extremely fortunate during handling not to contaminate our facility or personnel.
- Research Organization:
- GA Technologies Inc., San Diego, CA (United States); Northrop Research and Technology Center, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 21146756
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-09N0074; TOC-16; TRN: US09N0082026101
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 9. biennial U.S. TRIGA users' conference, Anaheim, CA (United States), 12-14 Mar 1984; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); 3 figs, 1 tab; Related Information: In: 9. biennial U.S. TRIGA users' conference. Papers and abstracts, 306 pages.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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