International ENSA/DOE Shock and Vibration Cask Test Video

This is a video presentation of the ENSA/DOE Multimodal Transportation Test, which began in Spain, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and progressed by rail to the western US. 

The expected cyclic history for transporting SNF has been considered in shipping tests, referred to as the multimodal transportation test (MMTT). The MMTT was an instrumented shipping test of an ENSA ENUN 32P cask that contained three surrogate PWR assemblies in three locations within the basket and 29 dummy assemblies to mimic the expected weight distribution. The three surrogate PWR assemblies had slightly different designs and are designated (1) the Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) fuel assembly, (2) the ENSA fuel assembly, and (3) the Korean fuel assembly. Each bundle had a few instrumented surrogate fuel rods that comprised of unpressurized unirradiated cladding tubes with either Pb or Mo pellets to represent the mass of UO2 pellets.