| Autor: |
Arbital, Jeffrey G., Goins, Monty L., Sanders, Kenneth E. |
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Proceedings of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Annual Meeting; 2010, p1-10, 10p, 1 Color Photograph, 2 Diagrams, 2 Charts |
| Abstrakt: |
The ES-3100 Type B shipping container was first licensed in April 2006 by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and is currently used for the domestic and international shipment of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU). This container recently received a license from the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) shipping container Certifying Official (DOE Environmental Management Program), as well as a Competent Authority Certificate from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). In addition to HEU, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Surplus Plutonium Disposition Program needs a cost effective shipping container for secure transportation of surplus plutonium (Pu) oxide to DOE's mixed oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) at the Savannah River Site (SRS). Therefore, the ES-3100 shipping container program has submitted an application to the DOE Certifying Official to add plutonium oxide to the authorized contents of the DOE certificate. This paper addresses the details of this new application, which was submitted in June 2010. The proposed Pu oxide content is in the form of two DOE standard 3013 containers, each loaded with the maximum loading of Pu oxide, in accordance with the DOE standard (DOE-STD-3013-2004). The certification is expected June 2011. The NRC certificate for this shipping container may also be revised to add Pu oxide as an authorized content; however that effort is not currently underway. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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