Testing of the DHLW truck shipping cask
The Defense High Level Waste (DHLW) truck transportation cask is a type B packaging currently under development by the US Department of Energy. Type B packagings for transporting radioactive materials are required to survive exposures to environments in accordance with provisions of 10 CFR 71. Simulations of the hypothetical accident conditions of impact, puncture, fire (thermal), and water immersion are required. Testing, analysis, or a combination of testing and analysis may be used to demonstrate compliance. In the DHLW cask program a combination of testing and analysis is used to satisfy the hypothetical accident conditions of impacting a fully loaded cask onto an unyielding target after a 9 m free fall and onto a 15-cm diam mild steel pin following a 1-m free fall. The immersion and fire events are treated analytically. The scale selected for the structural test model is one-half. This factor was chosen because it allows direct scaling of all critical cask components and provides adequate space for instrumentation. Test results are used in the Safety Analysis Report for Packaging to support the reference design. This paper describes testing of the model.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA); GA Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-80SF10791; AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 6034317
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-86-0056C; TTC-0590; CONF-860604-4; ON: DE86005437
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International symposium on the packaging and transport of radioactive materials (PATRAM '86), Davos, Switzerland, 16 Jun 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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