Russian Containers for Transportation of Solid Radioactive Waste.

Petrushenko, V. G. ; Baal, E. P. ; Tsvetkov, D. Y. ; Korb, V. R. ; Nikitin, V. S. ; Mikheev, A. A. ; Griffith, A.

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关键词: Russian Federation;    Shipping;    Radioactive wastes;    Containers;    Safety engineering;   

RP-ID  :  DE2004827665

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

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来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

The Russian Shipyard Zvyozdochka has designed a new container for transportation and storage of solid radioactive wastes. The PST1A-6 container is cylindrical shaped and it can hold seven standard 200-liter (55-gallon) drums. The steel wall thickness is 6 mm, which is much greater than standard U.S. containers. These containers are fully certified to the Russian GOST requirements, which are basically identical to U.S. and IAEA standards for Type A containers. They can be transported by truck, rail, barge, ship, or aircraft and they can be stacked in 6 layers in storage facilities. The first user of the PST1A-6 containers is the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy, under a program sponsored jointly by the U.S. DoD and DOE. This paper will describe the container design and show how the first 400 containers were fabricated and certified.