Open AccessTRUPACT-II 157 Examination Report
Author(s) -
Barry H. O'Brien,
Jeffrey M. Lacy,
Kip Archibald
Publication year - 2003
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/910719
Subject(s) - waste management , environmental science , truck , container (type theory) , payload (computing) , isolation (microbiology) , contamination , engineering , computer science , biology , mechanical engineering , computer network , ecology , microbiology and biotechnology , network packet , aerospace engineering
This report presents the results of examination and recovery activities performed on the TRUPACT-II 157 shipping container. The container was part of a contact-handled transuranic waste shipment being transported on a truck to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico when an accident occurred. Although the transport vehicle sustained only minor damage, airborne transuranic contamination was detected in air samples extracted from inside TRUPACT-II 157 at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Consequently, the shipping container was rejected, resealed, and returned to the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory where the payload was disassembled, examined, and recovered for subsequent reshipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. This report documents the results of those activities