Assessment of the safety of spent fuel transportation in urban environs

Technical Report · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5633480· OSTI ID:5633480

Sandoval, R P; Weber, J P; Levine, H S; Romig, A D; Johnson, J D; Luna, R E; Newton, G J; Wong, B A; Marshall, Jr, R W; Alvarez, J L

The results of a program to provide an experimental data base for estimating the radiological consequences from a hypothetical sabotage attack on a light-water-reactor spent fuel shipping cask in a densely populated area are presented. The results of subscale and full-scale experiments in conjunction with an analytical modeling study are described. The experimental data were used as input to a reactor-safety consequence model to predict radiological health consequences resulting from a hypothetical sabotage attack on a spent-fuel shipping cask in the Manhattan borough of New York City. The results of these calculations are presented.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA); Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Albuquerque, NM (USA). Inhalation Toxicology Research Inst.; Idaho National Engineering Lab., Idaho Falls (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5633480
• Report Number(s): SAND-82-2365; ON: DE84001629
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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