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Full scale impact testing for environmental and safety control of energy material shipping container systems
Abstract
Heavily-shielded energy material shipping systems, similar in size and weight to those presently employed to transport irradiated reactor fuel elements, are being destructively tested under dynamic conditions. In these tests, the outer and inner steel shells interact in a complex manner with the massive biological shielding in the system. Results obtained from these tests provide needed information for new design concepts. Containment failure (and the resulting release of radioactive material to the environment which might occur in an extremely severe accident) is most likely through the seals and other ancillary features of the shipping systems. Analyses and experiments provide engineering data on the behavior of these shipping systems under severe accident conditions and information for predicting potential survivability and environmental control with a rational margin of safety.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 6599552
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-781109-7
TRN: 79-003143
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-26
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Environmental control symposium, Washington, DC, USA, 28 Nov 1978
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING; SPENT FUEL CASKS; IMPACT TESTS; SAFETY; CASKS; CONTAINERS; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL TESTS; TESTING; 420204* - Engineering- Shipping Containers
Citation Formats
Seagren, R D. Full scale impact testing for environmental and safety control of energy material shipping container systems. United States: N. p., 1978.
Web.
Seagren, R D. Full scale impact testing for environmental and safety control of energy material shipping container systems. United States.
Seagren, R D. 1978.
"Full scale impact testing for environmental and safety control of energy material shipping container systems". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6599552.
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author = {Seagren, R D},
abstractNote = {Heavily-shielded energy material shipping systems, similar in size and weight to those presently employed to transport irradiated reactor fuel elements, are being destructively tested under dynamic conditions. In these tests, the outer and inner steel shells interact in a complex manner with the massive biological shielding in the system. Results obtained from these tests provide needed information for new design concepts. Containment failure (and the resulting release of radioactive material to the environment which might occur in an extremely severe accident) is most likely through the seals and other ancillary features of the shipping systems. Analyses and experiments provide engineering data on the behavior of these shipping systems under severe accident conditions and information for predicting potential survivability and environmental control with a rational margin of safety.},
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year = {Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1978},
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