Criticality review of DOE transportation packages
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA (United States)
- Argonne National Laboratory, IL (United States)
- Department of Energy, Germantown, MD (United States)
The U.S. transportation regulations (49 CFR 173.7d) authorize the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to certify its own packages for the transportation of radioactive materials using standards equivalent to those prescribed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 10 CFR 71 for commercial shipments. The Office of Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safely and Health, Office of Facility Safety Analysis, implements DOE Order 460.1, {open_quotes}Transportation and Packaging Safety,{close_quotes} which prescribes those standards and provides administrative requirements for DOE and its contractors. Specifically excluded from this order are Office of Defense Programs packaging for nuclear weapons and components, Office of Naval Reactors packaging for nuclear propulsion activities, and the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management`s packages, which by law can be certified only by the NRC. This report briefly describes the certification process, summarizes the nuclear criticality safety requirements that the packages must satisfy, and discusses several issues that have been noted during DOE package review.
- OSTI ID:
- 436924
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9606116-; ISSN 0003-018X; TRN: 96:005275-0156
- Journal Information:
- Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, Vol. 74; Conference: Annual meeting of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), Reno, NV (United States), 16-20 Jun 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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