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Packaging Handbook
ORNL staff members are responsible for
developing the Radioactive Materials Packaging Handbook, published in 1998. The handbook
assembles contributions from numerous DOE and industry experts into a single, definitive
reference, that covers not only the traditional technical topics needed for package
design, including structural, thermal, criticality, containment, shielding and testing,
but also examines the effect of package operations and maintenance on that design. The
handbook also addresses the important topics of transportation and packaging regulations,
QA, and the package certification process. The handbook is available from TTG. Advice on
packaging design is also available from TTG.
Packaging Handbook Table of Contents
To order a
copy of the Packaging Handbook, please contact Larry
Shappert at 865-576-2066.
Nuclear Analysis Tools
Criticality and shielding are important
considerations for design of radioactive material packages. Many industry standard
analytical methods and tools needed for package design have been developed at ORNL. The
Standardized Computer Analysis for Licensing Evaluation (SCALE) code system was developed
at ORNL. The SCALE software includes tools and methods used to evaluate the criticality
(KENO), thermal (HEATING), shielding (XSDRNPM, MORSE-SGC, QAD-S), and source term
(ORIGEN-S) of radioactive material packages and shipping casks.
Structural Analysis Tools
ORNL has extensive capability to model the structural aspects of
packages and simulate hypothetical accident conditions on those models to allow package
designers to evaluate the package design in advance of costly prototype fabrication and
testing. Some of the structure analysis tools available are LS-DYNA, INGRID, COSMOS/M,
ABAQUS, and TAURUS. Using these tools, the package design team can rapidly implement
design changes and interactively evaluate the impacts of these modifications of the
package performance. These results then form the basis for the safety analyses that are
need to support package certification.
For information on package
design, please contact Larry Shappert at
865-576-2066.
For information on nuclear and structural analysis tools, please contact Cecil Parks at 865-574-5280 (fax: 865-576-3513)
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