The invention relates to a container for the safe air transport of plutonium having several intermediate wood layers and a load spreader intermediate an inner container and an outer shell for mitigation of shock during a hypothetical accident.

This report provides an overview of the containers that are currently stored at Pantex and available for use in response to an accident or for use in any other application where a sealed containment vessel and accident resistant overpack may be needed.

Transportation Accident Resistant Containers (TARC)s are used for enhanced safety during movement of nuclear weapons. Its design features a tough stainless steel outer skin, redwood for impact mitigation and fire protection and a rugged aluminum inner con...

Transportation Accident Resistant Containers (TARC)s are used for enhanced safety during movement of nuclear weapons. Its design features a tough stainless steel outer skin, redwood for impact mitigation and fire protection and a rugged aluminum inner container. Redwood absorbs impact energy by crushing, similar to ...

A feasibility study has been performed for a light water reactor containment able to resist even severe accidents by passive means. Upper-bound design loads have been considered for all physically possible scenarios after a core-melt accident as determined by Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe. The essential layout of ...

A program was undertaken to develop quantitative methods for assessing the structural integrity of shipping containers for radioactive materials during both transport operations and accidents. The forces encountered during normal travel and accidents are analyzed, and the problem of proper rigging (tie-down) is discussed. The ...

Tests have been performed to collect data on the crush force vs deflection characteristics of California Redwood subjected to 60-percent strain. These data have been used to design accident-resistant containers for use in cargo aircraft. This report descr...

Skidding causes many traffic accidents. Streets and highways with skid-resisting surfaces reduce the

Development testing of model and full-scale hardware to the abnormal environments created during a cargo aircraft crash has demonstrated that the accident-resistant container (ARC) can protect an enclosed warhead from these abnormal environments. This protection reduces the probability of initiation of the warhead HE. Transfer of the plutonium ...

A simplified model of heat transfer and chemical reaction has been adapted to evaluate the expected behavior of droplets containing unreacted Zircaloy and stainless steel moving through the containment atmosphere during postulated accidents involving direct containment heating. The model includes internal and ...

This book contains the proceedings on medical management of radiation accidents. Topics covered include: Fundamentals of radiation accidents, Emergency room management of radiation accidents, and Special aspects of nuclear power.

This report describes and discusses the containment accident progression and the important severe accident containment thermohydraulic phenomena. The overall objective of the report is to provide a rather detailed presentation of the present status of phe...

This report describes the results of tests conducted on three different designs of full-size electrical penetration assemblies (EPAs) that are used in the containment buildings of nuclear power plants. The objective of the tests was to evaluate the behavior of the EPAs under simulated severe accident conditions using steam at elevated temperature and ...

As part of the Severe Accident Sequence Analysis (SASA) program of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), threats to containment and ways in which operators can help preserve containment integrity during severe accidents are examined. Severe accidents a...

Finite element simulations modelling impact of the Generic Accident-Resistant Packaging (GAP) have been performed. The GAP is a nuclear weapon shipping container that will be used by accident response groups from both the United States and the United Kingdom. The package is a thin-walled steel structure filled with rigid polyurethane ...

Three sets of accident data files have been analyzed to obtain a greater understanding of the personal, situational, and vehicle-related factors involved in pedestrian accidents. These include all fatal pedestrian accidents contained in the Fatal Accident...

The Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) database consist of three relational tables, containing data on automobile accidents on public U.S. roads that resulted in the death of one or more people within 30 days of the accident. Truck and trailer accidents are also included....

To obtain a generally accident-resistant containment, intensive investigations have been initiated at Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany. The main objective is to derive upper limits of containment loads resulting from energetic severe accident phenomena rather than to design a new ...

Changing world conditions and changing technologies suggest that serious consideration should be given to siting of nuclear power plants underground. Underground siting is not a new concept. Multiple research reactors, several weapons production reactors, and one power reactor have been built underground. What is new are the technologies and incentives that may now make underground siting a ...

The collection contains seven documents with the latest reports and studies from NTIS' database on truck accidents, truck safety and fatigue. Included in the collection are reports on truck accident countermeasures on urban freeways, identifying 'unsafe' ...

This book contains proceedings of Electrical Hazards and Accidents. Topics covered include: Electrical Systems; Electrical and Lightning Accidents and Fires; Conductors and Overcurrent Protection; OSHA Standards and Requirements; and High Voltage Systems: Design.

The U.S. Department of Energy (Department) has ultimate responsibility for the safety of all nuclear explosives and weapons operations conducted by the Department and its contractors. The Department also has joint responsibility for the safety of nuclear weapons in the custody of the Armed Services. Since the 1970s, the Department has designed, developed, and produced accident ...

An Insert Kit, made primarily of rigid polyurethane foam, was designed for use with the H1501B Container. The Insert Kit was designed to retain a B61 Center Bomb Subassembly (CBS), inside the H1501B. Concurrent engineering was utilized to design and manufacture the H1626 on a very tight schedule.

The H1632 Adjustable Caster Assembly was developed for use on the H1501B Transportation Accident Resistant Container (TARC). The caster can be raised and lowered via its attached leveling jack or, by removing a locking pin, can be aligned horizontally or removed for transportational purposes. The H1632 is packaged as a single kit that ...

This paper describes a procedure for developing probability-based load combinations for the design of concrete containments. The proposed criteria are in a load and resistance factor design (LRFD) format. The load factors and resistance factors are derived for use in limit states design and are based on a target limit state ...

...accident investigation dockets, and accident database data. 837.3 Section 837.3 ...accident investigation dockets, and accident database data. (a) Demands for material...investigations, or its computerized accident database(s) shall be submitted, in...

... SAFETY EQUIPMENT, FACTOR ANALYSIS, FIRE RESISTANT MATERIALS, ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS, FIRE PREVENTION, SELF SEALING ...

The report provides a comprehensive review of signal installations and their impacts on accident patterns, and accident frequency and severity. It contains information on accident statistics by type and severity, accident rates for stop controlled and sig...

The report contains a review of present road accident recording system in the SADCC-countries and recommends a new, improved road accident recording system. It is recommended to report each individual accident to a central unit which prepares and compiles...

The environmental consequences of an LMFBR accident involving breach of containment are so severe that such accidents must not be allowed to happen. Present methods for analyzing hypothetical core disruptive accidents like a loss of flow with failure to s...

This publication contains summary reports of major marine accidents, adopted from August 1979 through June 1982. The summary reports present the probable cause and accident descriptions for the following accidents: Oceanographic Research Vessel PROFILER, ...

This publication contains summary reports of major marine accidents, occurring from January through June 1979. The summary reports present the probable cause and accident descriptions for the following accidents: Fishing vessel OCEAN CAPE lost on January ...

In support of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Accident Management Research Program, the availability of instruments to supply accident management information during a broad range of severe accidents is evaluated for a Boiling Water Reactor with a M...

The statistics are compiled from summaries of fatal and personal injury accident data and exposure data submitted to the Federal Highway Administration by the State highway departments. The reports contain numbers of fatal accidents, injury accidents, fat...

The document refers to the Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (CENNA) (IAEA-INFCIRC-335) and the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency (CANARE) (IAEA-INFCIRC-336). Part I contains the stat...

The document refers to the Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (CENNA) (IAEA-INFCIRC-335) and the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency (CANARE) (IAEA-INFCIRC-336). Part I contains the stat...

The document refers to the Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (IAEA-INFCIRC-335) and to the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency (IAEA-INFCIRC-336). Part I contains the status lists as of...

The document refers to the Convention on early notification of a nuclear accident (INFCIRC-335) and to the Convention on assistance in the case of a nuclear accident or radiological emergency (INFCIRC-336). Part I contains reservations/declarations made u...

The document refers to the Convention on early notification of a nuclear accident (INFCIRC-335) and to the Convention on assistance in the case of a nuclear accident or radiological emergency (INFCIRC-336). Part I of the document contains the texts of res...

The document refers to the Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident (INFCIRC-335) and to the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency (INFCIRC-336). Part I of the document contains reservations/dec...

This report contains the briefs of accidents involving Taylorcraft-B aircraft occuring in 1966. There were 37 accidents involving this model aircraft out of a total of 5,712 general aviation accidents in 1966. (Author)

The report presents the record of aircraft accidents which occurred in U.S. civil aviation operations during the calendar year 1971. It includes a statistical recapitulation of all accidents, and a brief of each air carrier accident containing the essenti...

The report presents the record of aircraft accidents which occurred in U. S. Civil Aviation Operations during calendar year 1970. It includes a statistical recapitulation of all accidents, and a brief of each air carrier accident containing the essential ...

... false Contents of casualty or accident report form. 174.107 Section...174.107 Contents of casualty or accident report form. Each form for reporting a vessel casualty or accident must contain the information...

The H1501 Transportation Accident Resistant Container (TARC) was developed using the previously completed design and hardware from the Helicopter Accident Resistant Container (HARC) program. This report documents the test program used to certify the capability of the H1501 ...

Possible strategies are considered for implementing a regulatory policy requiring that power reactor containment enclosures be modified to resist severe core-melt accidents without release of radioactive materials. Such modification was found to be feasible, reliable and cost effective in the work reported in previous studies in this ...

Tests have been performed to collect data on the crush force vs deflection characteristics of California Redwood subjected to 60-percent strain. These data have been used to design accident-resistant containers for use in cargo aircraft. This report describes the tests and the results obtained.

Most concepts for the disposal of highly radioactive waste involve converting the waste to a solid form like concrete or glass and storing this solid form in metal containers. Two major factors in the final selection of materials for these containers are the compatibility between waste form and container material and the durability of ...

This book provides a comprehensive of the April 1986 Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident and its short and long-term effects in the fourteen years since the accident. Chapters include: cause and description of the accident; the Shelter constructed to contain the remains the destroyed reactor, radioactive wastes ...

This work, the first by native Ukrainian scientists and specialists, views the Chernobyl nuclear accident from the perspective of risk assessment. It describes the accident, the shelter constructed to contain the destroyed reactor, the sites used for disposal and storage of radioactive waste, the environmental contamination, and the ...

The management of severe accidents in light water reactors is receiving much attention in several countries. The reduction of risk by measures and/or actions that would affect the behavior of a severe accident is discussed. The research program that is being conducted by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission focuses on both in-vessel ...

As part of the Severe Accident Risk Reduction Program, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have constructed a group of containment event trees to be used in the analysis of key accident sequences for light water reactors (LWR) during postulated se...

The MARCH and HECTR computer codes are used in this study to examine hydrogen production, transport, and combustion in an ice-condenser containment for a number of hypothesized severe accidents. Both degraded-core and core-meltdown accidents are treated. ...

Appendix A contains information and details about the accident progression analysis. Appendix A.1 contains a detailed description and listing of the Accident Progression Event Tree (APET) and the binner that groups the outcomes of evaluating the APET. App...

Information is presented concerning the scenario for core degradation; early core degradation in small break loss-of-coolant accidents; and containing a degraded core accident. (ERA citation 08:026288)

The publication contains selected aircraft accident reports, in brief format, occurring in U.S. civil aviation operations during calendar year 1976. The 898 General Aviation accidents contained in this publication represent a random selection. This public...

This publication contains selected aircraft accident reports, in brief format, occurring in U.S. civil aviation operations during calendar year 1977. The 897 General Aviation accidents contained in this publication represent a random selection. This publi...

Brookhaven National Laboratory, under the auspices of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is investigating accident management strategies which could help preserve containment integrity or minimize releases during a severe accident. The strategies consi...

In support of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Accident Management Research Program, the availability of instruments to supply accident management information during a broad range of severe accidents is evaluated for a Boiling Water Reactor with a Mark I containment. Results from this evaluation include: (1) ...

This report describes analyses of the response of a Pressurized-Water Reactor at the Zion Plant to hypothetical core-meltdown sequences. The analyses consider the progression of core meltdown, containment response, and consequences to the public for many specific accident sequences within the categories of Loss of Coolant Accidents ...

The PARC (plutonium accident resistant container) project resulted in the design, development, and certification testing of a crashworthy air-transportable plutonium package (shipping container) for certification by the USNRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission). This PAT-1 (plutonium air transportable) package survives ...

The PARC (plutonium accident resistant container) project resulted in the design, development, and certification testing of a crashworthy air-transportable plutonium package (shipping container) for certification by the USNRC. This PAT-1 (plutonium air transportable) package survives a very severe sequential test ...

The PARC (plutonium accident resistant container) project resulted in the design, development, and certification testing of a crashworthy air-transportable plutonium package (shipping container) for certification by the USNRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission). This PAT-1 (plutonium air transportable) package survives ...

... Descriptors : *STRUCTURES, *BLAST, *STEEL, *BEAMS(STRUCTURAL), *COLUMNS(SUPPORTS), *CONCRETE, ACCIDENTS, ASYMMETRY ...

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... Orders 813 Mine-Resistant Vehicles from General ... not being included in the 1,600-vehicle order for ... MRAP version to address rollover accidents and ...

... in Iraq with Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected (MRAP) vehicles by FY2009. ... logistical and readiness concerns, and MRAP rollover accidents could ...

The report identifies and assesses accident management strategies which could be important for preventing containment failure and/or mitigating the release of fission products during a severe accident in a BWR plant with a Mark III type of containment. Ba...

Accident management strategies that have the potential to maintain containment integrity and control or mitigate the release of radioactivity following a severe accident at a boiling water reactor with a Mark II type of containment are identified and eval...

The report identifies and assesses accident management strategies which could be important for preventing containment failure and/or mitigating the release of fission products during a severe accident in a BWR plant with a Mark I type of containment. Base...

The rate of release of radioactive materials from a containment during a severe accident has a significant impact on the consequences of the accident. One hypothesis for a containment leakage model states that the containment will develop a controlled, re...

CONTAIN is an integrated containment thermohydraulic and aerosol transport code. The choice of the Surry plant provides an opportunity to compare the CONTAIN calculations to those recently performed by Battelle Columbus Laboratories. The accident sequence...

weapon involved in a transportation accident would, or could, detonate in a nuclear fashion. Most nuclear weapons will contain conventional high explosives in varying amounts up...

The main phenomena leading to hydrogen generation in the containment of a PWR in accident conditions are described in this report. They are the following: water radiolysis, zirconium cladding oxidation and oxidation of the aluminium of internal structures...

This document contains information concerning Army aviation safety, tree strike accident investigations, and aviation accident prevention.

Relationships between truck accidents and selected geometric characteristics of interchanges are examined. Datasets containing information on truck accident at interchanges, traffic exposure and selected geometric characteristics are analyzed with an emph...

This ongoing subscription reviews investigations of selected Aircraft Accidents conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board. The reports contain in narrative form the Board's factual findings and analysis leading to a probable cause. There are a...

RBMK reactors (reactor control, protection systems, containment) and the nuclear power plant of Chernobyl are first presented. The scenario of the accident is given with a detailed chronology. The actions and consequences on the site are reviewed. This re...

The publication contains briefs of selected railroad accidents occurring in U.S. Railroad operations. The brief format presents basic facts, conditions, circumstances, and probable cause(s) in each instance.

This report describes the development of the Radioactive Materials Transportation Accident/Incident Data Base (RAM-AIDB), which contains information on the occurrences of transportation accidents and incidents, for radioactive materials (RAM) that are inv...

The publication contains a report of a pipeline accident investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board. The accident location and date is Chicago Heights, Illinois, March 13, 1986.

The publication contains brief reports issued in May 1986. The brief reports present the accident description and probable cause for the following accidents: Grounding and sinking of Fish Tender ALASKA ROUGHNECK; Fire onboard and sinking of Fishing Vessel...

Event trees have been constructed for all phases of LMFBR accidents. The trees proved useful for identifying meaningful initiating accident categories and containment responses. In these areas, quantification appears feasible, given an adequate data base....

The publication contains a report of a highway accident investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board. The accident location and date is Largo, Maryland, September 6, 1985.

The Statistical Review of General Aviation Accidents is published annually by the National Transportation Safety Board. This publication contains statistical information compiled from reports of General Aviation accidents that occurred during the calendar...

The statistics in the report are compiled from summaries of fatal and personal injury accident data and exposure data submitted to the Federal Highway Administration by the State highway departments. The reports contain numbers of fatal accidents, injury ...

The statistics in the report are compiled from summaries of fatal and personal injury accident data and exposure data submitted to the Federal Highway Administration by the State highway departments. The reports contain numbers of fatal accidents, injury ...

The liberation of radioactive materials into various containment locations during a severe accident creates a radiation field that may have a significant impact on the accident progression. High radiation may not only impair the functioning of important e...

The publication contains statistical, cause/factor and injury tables, accident rates and the Briefs of Accidents involving Air Taxi Operations, 1970. (Author)

The publication, containing reports of U. S. Civil aircraft accidents, in brief format, is issued monthly and includes those accidents analyzed and processed during the preceding month. The reports are reproduced directly from the coded record on magnetic...

The publication, contains reports of U. S. Civil aricraft accidents, in brief format, is issued monthly and includes those accidents analyzed and processed during the preceding month. The reports are reproduced directly from the coded record on magnetic t...

This report contains technical information used to determine accident consequences for the Spent Nuclear Fuel Project safety documents. It does not determine accident consequences or describe specific accident scenarios, but instead provides generic information.

An accident is described, involving the explosion of an ion-exchange column containing about 100 g of exp 241 Am. A chemical operator was injured in this accident, receiving acid burns and superficial cuts on the upper part of his body. From 1 to 5 curies...

... Title : RESISTANCE OF NICKEL-CONTAINING ALLOYS TO CORROSION IN PHOSPHORIC ACID. Corporate Author : ...

Elements of risk in reactor accidents are discussed. Estimates of the public risk from nuclear-power-plant accidents hinge on three important factors: (1) the probability of specific events occurring that could lead to an accident involving radiation release; (2) the quantity, type, and timing of release of radioactive material that ...

Details are given of more than 1,500 60-day-lost-time accidents and contains 12 tables showing different groupings and classifications of these underground accidents in Pennsylvania bituminous mines during 1939. Segregations reveal types and causes of accidents, groups of workers subjected to greatest hazards, ...

The publication contains reports of aircraft accidents and incidents that occurred in 1977 and have not been included in a prior issue of briefs. Included are one U.S. air carrier accident, 26 U.S. air carrier incidents, 44 general aviation accidents occu...

This publication contains reports of aircraft accidents and incidents that occurred in 1980 and have not been included in a prior issue of briefs. Included are 14 U.S. air carrier accidents, 18 U.S. air carrier incidents, 106 general aviation accidents oc...

Deformation of a steel containment anchorage system during a severe accident may result in a leakage path at the containment boundaries. Current design criteria are based on either ductile or brittle failure modes of headed bolts that do not account for factors such as cracking of the containment basemat or ...

On August 15, 1962, an explosion of flammable gases was experienced in a 181 KV oil circuit breaker tank at the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant. This breaker was drained of oil and opened for inspection to determine the cause of high contact resistance detected during routine testing of the breaker. Circumstances preceding the accident, the ...

This report describes the longitudinal dynamic crush environment for a Lightweight Air-Transportable Accident-Resistant Container (LAARC, now called PAT-2) that can be used to transport small quantities of radioactive material. The analysis of the crush environment involves evaluation of the forces imposed upon the LAARC package during the crash of a ...

Containment of a tritium accident within a large fusion device building will be difficult and costly. Complete containment is impossible, and with this fact in mind, the global dispersion and health effects of tritium are reviewed. Atmospheric tritium emi...

A study was carried out under the aegis of the OECD into filtered vented containment systems which permit depressurization of the containment and filtration of the effluents released to the environment, in the event of a major accident with a pressurized ...

This report is a first documentation of the KfK/PNS activities and plans to investigate the behaviour of steel containments under accident conditions. The investigations will deal with a free standing spherical containment shell built for the latest type ...

Calculations were performed to study the Ice-Condenser Containment Standard Problem for the NRC Containment Loads Working Group (CLWG). This problem is based on a TMLB' accident sequence. TMLB' denotes a transient-initiated accident in which there is tota...

Bellows are an integral part of the containment pressure boundary in nuclear power plants. They are used at piping penetrations to allow relative movement between piping and the containment wall. In a severe accident they may be subjected to high pressure...

A limited study has been performed assessing the effectiveness of containment sprays to mitigate particular challenges which may occur during a severe accident. Certain aspects of thee specific topics related to using sprays under severe accident conditio...

Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRAs) have identified severe accidents for nuclear power plants that have the potential to cause failure of the containment through direct containment heating (DCH). Prevention of DCH or mitigation of its effects may be pos...

The idea of primary containment venting to prevent or mitigate the consequences from a severe accident is not new. Research has been conducted on filter effectiveness for over thirty years. United States production reactors have had containment filter sys...

Volume 2 contains the following appendices: Severe accident data; truck accident data; railroad accident data; highway survey data and bridge column properties; structural analysis; thermal analysis; probability estimation techniques; and benchmarking for computer codes used in impact analysis. (LN)

The publication contains selected aircraft accident reports, in brief format, occurring in U.S. Civil Aviation operations during calendar year 1974. The 898 General Aviation accidents contained represent a random selection. The publication is issued irreg...

This publication contains selected aircraft accident reports, in brief format, occurring in U.S. Civil Aviation operations during calendar year 1971. The 896 General Aviation accidents contained in this publication represent a random selection. This publi...

The publication contains selected aircraft accident reports, in brief format, occurring in U. S. Civil Aviation operations during calendar year 1970. The 1000 General Aviation accidents contained in the publication represent a random selection. The brief ...

The publication contains selected aircraft accident reports, in brief format, occurring in U.S. civil aviation operations during calendar year 1981. The 297 General Aviation accidents contained in this publication represent a random selection. This public...

The publication contains selected aircraft accident reports, in brief format, occurring in U.S. civil aviation operations during calendar year 1981. The 300 General Aviation accidents contained in this publication represent a random selection. This public...

The publication contains selected aircraft accident reports, in brief format, occurring in civil aviataviation operations during calendar year 1981. The 300 General Aviation accidents contained in this publication represent a random selection. This public...

...Response plan. A launch site accident investigation plan shall contain...consequences of a launch site accident are contained and minimized...adopt preventive measures for avoiding recurrence of the event...Investigation plan. A launch site accident investigation plan must...