The IRSN has assessed the safety of R73 parcel model loaded with active metallic wastes
Description
After having recalled the legal requirements regarding the safety of radioactive material transportation and applied to parcels containing these materials, this report from the French Nuclear Safety and Radioprotection Institute (IRSN) briefly describes the R73 parcel which has been designed to contain radioactive wastes issued by PWR reactors and nuclear power plant dismantling. It indicates the scope of expertise of the IRSN with respect to this parcel. It notices that the characteristics to be controlled for parcel content have not been correctly specified by the manufacturer. It briefly comments the results of different investigations performed on this parcel model: structural, thermal, and confinement analysis, and radiation protection
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Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (French)
- L'IRSN a expertise la surete du modele de colis R 73 charge de dechets metalliques actives
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 4 p.
- Report number
- INIS-FR--12-0393
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 43038341
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
- Descriptors DEI
- CONTAINERS; CONTAINMENT; FRANCE; FRENCH ORGANIZATIONS; LEGAL ASPECTS; RADIATION HAZARDS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; REACTOR DISMANTLING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY ANALYSIS; SAFETY MARGINS; SAFETY REPORTS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; WASTE TRANSPORTATION
- Descriptors DEC
- DEMOLITION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EUROPE; HAZARDS; HEALTH HAZARDS; MANAGEMENT; MATERIALS; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTES; WESTERN EUROPE
Optional Information
- Notes
- Available from the INIS Liaison Officer for France, see the 'INIS contacts' section of the INIS website for current contact and E-mail addresses: http://www.iaea.org/INIS/INIS-contacts/