Published 1991
| Version v1
Report
UF6 overfilling prevention at Eurodif production Georges Besse plant
Description
Risk of overfilling exists on different equipments of Georges BESSE Plant: cylinders, desublimers and intermediate tanks. The preventive measures are composed of technical devices: desublimers weighing, load monitoring alarms, automatic controls ... and procedures, training, safety organization. In thirteen years of operation, some incidents have occurred but none of them has caused any personal injuries. They are related and discussed. The main factors involved in the Sequoyah fuel facility accident on 1/4/1986 have been analyzed and taken into account
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Uranium hexafluoride handling
- Imprint Pagination
- 295 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 63-71.
- Report number
- CONF-9110117--
Conference
- Title
- 2. international conference on uranium hexafluoride handling.
- Dates
- 29-31 Oct 1991.
- Place
- Oak Ridge, TN (United States).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 25052338
- Subject category
- S42: ENGINEERING;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- EURODIF; MATERIALS HANDLING; MONITORING; PRESSURE VESSELS; SAFETY; URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS; CONTAINERS; FLUORIDES; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; HALIDES; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; URANIUM FLUORIDES