Comments on a paper tilted `The sea transport of vitrified high-level radioactive wastes: Unresolved safety issues` | Zendy

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Comments on a paper tilted `The sea transport of vitrified high-level radioactive wastes: Unresolved safety issues`

Author(s) -

J.L. Sprung,

Paul E. McConnell,

P. J. Nigrey,

Douglas James Ammerman

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/477714

Subject(s) - radioactive waste , cask , environmental science , collision , forensic engineering , waste management , corrosion , spent nuclear fuel , stress corrosion cracking , mining engineering , geology , engineering , materials science , metallurgy , computer science , computer security

The cited paper estimates the consequences that might occur should a purpose-built ship transporting Vitrified High Level Waste (VHLW) be involved in a severe collision that causes the VHLW canisters in one Type-B package to spill onto the floor of a major ocean fishing region. Release of radioactivity from VHLW glass logs, failure of elastomer cask seals, failure of VHLW canisters due to stress corrosion cracking (SCC), and the probabilities of the hypothesized accident scenario, of catastrophic cask failure, and of cask recovery from the sea are all discussed

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