Comments on a paper tilted `The sea transport of vitrified high-level radioactive wastes: Unresolved safety issues`
- and others
The cited paper estimates the consequences that might occur should a purpose-built ship transporting Vitrified High Level Waste (VHLW) be involved in a severe collision that causes the VHLW canisters in one Type-B package to spill onto the floor of a major ocean fishing region. Release of radioactivity from VHLW glass logs, failure of elastomer cask seals, failure of VHLW canisters due to stress corrosion cracking (SCC), and the probabilities of the hypothesized accident scenario, of catastrophic cask failure, and of cask recovery from the sea are all discussed.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 477714
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-97-1130; ON: DE97006215; TRN: 97:011031
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: May 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Safety analysis report vitrified high level waste type B shipping cask
SeaRAM: an evaluation of the safety of RAM transport by sea
Evaluation of an international, perpetual, and retrievable facility for storage of vitrified radioactive waste
Technical Report
·
Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1995
·
OSTI ID:477714
SeaRAM: an evaluation of the safety of RAM transport by sea
Conference
·
Sun Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1995
·
OSTI ID:477714
+3 more
Evaluation of an international, perpetual, and retrievable facility for storage of vitrified radioactive waste
Journal Article
·
Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982
· Nucl. Technol.; (United States)
·
OSTI ID:477714