Final report on shipping-cask sabotage source-term investigation

Technical Report · Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6743835· OSTI ID:6743835

Schmidt, E W; Walters, M A; Trott, B D; Gieseke, J A

A need existed to estimate the source term resulting from a sabotage attack on a spent nuclear fuel shipping cask. An experimental program sponsored by the US NRC and conducted at Battelle's Columbus Laboratories was designed to meet that need. In the program a precision shaped charge was fired through a subscale model cask loaded with segments of spent PWR fuel rods and the radioactive material released was analyzed. This report describes these experiments and presents their results.

• Research Organization: BMI (Battelle Memorial Institute (United States))
• OSTI ID: 6743835
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CR-2472; BMI-2095; ON: DE83900255
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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050900* -- Nuclear Fuels-- Transport
Handling
& Storage
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS
42 ENGINEERING
420204 -- Engineering-- Shipping Containers
CASKS
CHEMICAL EXPLOSIVES
CONTAINERS
EXPLOSIVES
FUEL ELEMENTS
FUEL RODS
PENETRATORS
PWR TYPE REACTORS
RADIOACTIVITY
REACTOR COMPONENTS
REACTORS
SABOTAGE
SCALE MODELS
SHAPED CHARGES
SPENT FUEL CASKS
SPENT FUEL ELEMENTS
STRUCTURAL MODELS
WATER COOLED REACTORS
WATER MODERATED REACTORS