A short document by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Navy describing the Navy’s nuclear reactors and fuel types, how their spent fuel is shipped, and what regulatory requirements their packages meet.
A landing page on the NRC website explaining what and how the NRC regulates with respect to the transportation of spent nuclear fuel.
A short article by DOE describing the Fortis railcar and its recent approval to begin construction and testing.
A Verge article describing a brief history of spent nuclear fuel, its transportation, and package testing. The main topic of the article is the “Nuclear Triathlon,’ which is a long-distance transportation test that produced real-world transportation data from a non-radioactive package shipped from Spain, to Belgium, to the US, and back.
A document by the NRC describing the stages of spent fuel storage, the regulations involved in each stage, and the thermal, safety, longevity, and radioactive considerations in storage. This document explains the fundamentals of each storage type in addition to the basics of radiological criticality, reactor processes, and regulatory activities.
A single-page document by the DOE describing the Atlas Railcar’s purpose, design, and the testing regimen it must complete before being put into service.
A slide deck by Sandia National Labs describing real-world accident examples, transportation regulations and the hypothetical accidents that are described in them, and the regulatory tests that go along with the regulations. It addresses how risk assessments defined the accident conditions and the likelihood of extra-regulatory events.
A report associated with a presentation given at PATRAM by the German institute BAM describing their IAEA regulatory package testing approaches and issues encountered in full-scale testing.
A short document by the German institute BAM detailing the specifications of a drop test facility that meets the “unyielding” regulatory testing requirement.
A report by Sandia National Labs focused on the concept of an “unyielding surface” and describing the mathematical analysis and physical design and construction of an essentially unyielding impact test pad for cask testing.
