Water Resistant Container Technical Basis Document for the TA-55 Criticality Safety Program

Smith, Paul Herrick¹  Teague, Jonathan Gayle¹ 

[1] Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

关键词: nuclear material container criticality safety water resistant water tight fire water;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1179050
RP-ID  :  LA-UR--15-22781
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1179050

学科分类：核能源与工程

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Criticality safety at TA-55 relies on nuclear material containers that are water resistant to prevent significant amounts of water from coming into contact with fissile material in the event of a fire that causes a breach of glovevbox confinement and subsequent fire water ingress. A ???water tight container??? is a container that will not allow more than 50ml of water ingress when fully submerged, except when under sufficient pressure to produce structural discontinuity. There are many types of containers, welded containers, hermetically sealed containers, filtered containers, etc.