Shielded railway transporter system: Equipment design and operational features

Conference · Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6393051

Britts, R P ^[1]; Hedengren, D C; Pan, R B ^[2]

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1. Nuclear Packaging, Inc., Tacoma, WA (USA)
2. Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (USA)

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Hanford Site at Richland, Washington requires a rail-mounted, shielded transfer of radioactively contaminated equipment in the T-Plant, U-Plant, B-Plant and PUREX canyon tunnel facilities. Some typical contaminated equipment are tanks (5--15 tons), reboiler bundles (7 tons), centrifuges (17 tons), moderators (13 tons), and pulse generators (5 tons). The Multipurpose Transfer Box (MTB) is designed and engineered to transport these pieces of equipment and meet specific design constraints for function, operation, and modified 10 CFR 71 normal and hypothetical accident conditions for transport. This report describes the Transfer Box. 8 figs.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/DP
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-87RL10930
• OSTI ID: 6393051
• Report Number(s): WHC-SA-0742; CONF-900210-28; ON: DE90008581
• Resource Relation: Conference: Waste management 90: working towards a cleaner environment: waste processing, transportation, storage and disposal, technical programs and public education, Tucson, AZ (USA), 25 Feb - 1 Mar 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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