Assessment of the safety of spent fuel transportation in urban environs
This report describes the results of a program conducted at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) to provide the experimental data base for estimating the radiological consequences from a hypothetical sabotage attack on a spent fuel shipping cask. The primary objectives of the program were limited to (1) evaluating the effectiveness of selected high energy devices in breaching full-size spent fuel casks, (2) quantifying and characterizing relevant aerosol properties of the released fuel, and (3) using the resulting experimental data to evaluate the radiological health consequences resulting from a hypothetical sabotage attack on a spent fuel shipping cask in a densely populated area. Subscale and full-scale experiments in conjunction with an analytical modeling study were performed to meet the programmatic objectives.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-76DP00789
- OSTI ID:
- 6376470
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-83-0196C; CONF-830528-34; ON: DE83013670
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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