[en] While the technology to transport nuclear wastes is generally viewed to be available, research and development activities in support of nuclear waste management programs are still expected to be required. The status of current base technology activities at the Transportation Technology Center (TTC) and their direction for the future are reviewed in this paper. These activities include tasks in standards and subsystems development, systems technology development, information materials and systems, institutional issue analyses and safety analyses

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[en] This paper was intended to present an organizational approach to predicting collective action and then to apply that approach to the issue of siting of a nuclear or other hazardous waste repository. Borrowing largely from two previously developed models (one by Perry et al. at Battelle's Human Affairs Research Center and one by Charles Tilly), I developed a theoretical model. Indicators were identified for many of the variables, but they are not easily measured, requiring a number of decisions on thresholds which were not clarified in the paper. What remains is further discussion of these measurement problems, evaluation of the confirmation status of the propositions, and empirical tests of the model. In the meantime, however, the discussion should provide assessors of public resistance with a theoretical basis for their thinking and a guide to some revealing indicators of the potential for collective action

[en] The number of shipments of radioactive material is increasing steadily - some estimates indicate by about 10 per cent a year. Several million packages are already shipped about the world each year and this number will increase at least for the next 10 years. Part of this increase will come from the expected growth in the number of nuclear power plants which will be shipping irradiated fuel that had previously been stored on-site or in use, and from the associated shipments of nuclear waste. The increase in production and use of nuclear fuel requires increased production (and hence increased shipments) or uranium and thorium ores; and of concentrates, nitrates, fluorides and fresh fuel. Shipments of highly active waste from reprocessing nuclear fuels, already occurring to some extent in Europe, will increase and may begin again in the USA in the next few years. Also in the next 10 years, decommissioning of some reactors will take place requiring special types of shipments. A new type of shipment that may arise within the next 10 years is that of several kilograms (millions of curies) of tritium. A few of these large, easily controlled shipments will be required for the operation of the prototype fusion reactor, a joint project supported through the IAEA by the USSR, USA, and others. The technology for designing such packaging is well established, but it does not appear that any of the existing designs are capable of handling such large amounts of tritium and so new designs will be needed. The medical, industrial, and research uses of radioactivity are expected to continue to grow and the associated shipments of radioactive material to become even more frequent. The Agency is collecting data on shipments in all Member States and will issue an analysis of that data in 1981. For several years to come, however, we can expect the largest number of packages to be exempt shipments (e.g. smoke detectors and luminous watches) and medical isotopes; the greatest volume to be uranium ores and concentrates; and the highest activity levels to occur in shipments of irradiated nuclear fuel

[en] In this report a managerial and psychological analysis, based on literature study and case analysis, is presented of various policy strategies which are or can be followed by governments in decisions about disposal of dangerous waste. Special attention is given to radioactive waste. (Auth.)

[en] Program ASBS01, written for the staff of the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is an on-line management information system that provides file maintenance and information retrievability for demolition and/or renovation operations involving friable (capable of becoming an airborne health hazard) asbestos material at the Laboratory. System 1022 is the data base management system used. The screen processor SCOPE provides the DEM staff with system prompts for ease of use and data integrity. Data for the system comes from two UCN forms: (1) Notice of Intention to Demolish or Renovate Friable Asbestos Material (UCN-13385) and (2) Request for the Disposal of Asbestos or Material Containing Asbestos (UCN-13386). Examples of the forms are in Appendix A. Data is entered into the system as requests are submitted to DEM. Total amounts of friable asbestos removed in demolition and/or renovation operations can be generated by the program upon user request. These totals are submitted in a quarterly report to the Environmental Protection Branch of the US Department of Energy (DOE) on a continuing basis (see Appendix B). This report describes the operation of the computer program ASBS01 from data entry to generation of totals. Each data attribute of the master file ASBSTO.DMS is described in detail, and a sample session is given for user reference

[en] State and local laws requiring notification for shipments of radioactive and other hazardous materials have become increasingly common and controversial during the last decade. Such laws are seen by their proponents as essential for planning and emergency response, while their opponents view them as unnecessary and intrusive. The debate over the value of notification requirements has often been hampered by the lack of information about the extent and nature of these laws. The report is intended to present factual information about notification laws in order to facilitate more informed discussion

[en] Utilities are increasingly realizing the importance of having a full in-house capability in the field of in-core fuel management. This requires competent staff as well as accurate, reliable and easy-to-use computer codes. The development of advanced computer codes is thus an important task for the utilities and the supporting industry. (author)

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