Quality assurance, fabrication, and accompanying quality control of CASTOR registered transport and storage casks

In Germany, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM, Berlin) acts as the competent authority for the approval of quality assurance measures of packages used in the transport of radioactive material. For this purpose, the German Federal Ministry of Transport issued the ''Technical Guideline on Measures for Quality Assurance (QM) and Quality Surveillance (QUe) for packages for transport of radioactive materials (TRV 006)''. Due to this guideline, every applicant for a cask license is requested to issue a written programme for design, fabrication, testing, documentation, operation, maintenance, and recurrent testing of packages. This programme has to be approved by BAM. Therefore, the company implemented and maintains a programme on basis of the TRV 006 and a Quality Management System on basis of the ISO 9001:2000 which cover all requirements of the guideline to ensure a controlled processes. The system is regularly assessed by BAM