Accident-resistant container: safety for warhead transport. Executive summary

Technical Report · Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1975

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/4130337· OSTI ID:4130337

Berry, R. E.

Development testing of model and full-scale hardware to the abnormal environments created during a cargo aircraft crash has demonstrated that the accident-resistant container (ARC) can protect an enclosed warhead from these abnormal environments. This protection reduces the probability of initiation of the warhead HE. Transfer of the plutonium limit to the ARC may permit transporting increased numbers of warheads on a single transport vehicle. Testing of one warhead configuration has been completed. Production can be initiated for transporting that system in the ARC. Other systems need test evaluation and certification before being transported in the ARC. (auth)

• Research Organization: Sandia Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA)
• DOE Contract Number: AT(29-1)-789
• NSA Number: NSA-33-009956
• OSTI ID: 4130337
• Report Number(s): SAND-75-0062
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 30-JUN-76
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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