Mr. Shappert is a Member, Transportation Technologies Group,
ORNL. He has 43 years professional experience with ORNL, over 40 years of which have been
associated with transportation and radioactive materials packaging programs. He was editor
of the Cask Designers Guide published in 1970 and the updated Packaging Handbook published
in 1998; general chairman of PATRAM '68 (the Symposium on Packaging and Transportation of
Radioactive Materials) and PATRAM '74; and has served on many PATRAM committees. He has
been a member of numerous standards committees including the International Standards
Organization (ISO) committee NE85/SC5/WG9 on a guide for the design of cask trunnions. He
consulted on transportation matters with the NRC's Advisory Committee on Reactor
Safeguards (ACRS) committee for over 10 years. His recent assignments include (1)
evaluating the risk in transporting spent fuel across country to a proposed western fuel
storage facility, (2) supporting efforts to certify proposed new spent fuel package
designs through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, (3) evaluating packages containing the
U.S. Government strategic reserves of thorium nitrate, (4) recommending modifications of
packages to ship waste material in public commerce for burial at a repository, and (5)
carrying out drop tests to prove packaging concepts. Previous assignments include
supporting proposed package designs to carry mixed-oxide fresh fuels, developing a
computer-aided program for tying down radioactive material packages in accordance with
Federal or international regulations and editing the Radioactive Materials Packaging
Handbook, which was published in 1998. He is currently a member of the editorial board of
the International Journal of Radioactive Materials Transport, published by Nuclear
Technology Publishing, P.O. Box 7, Ashford, Kent TN23 1 YW, England, since the inception
of the Journal. He holds a BSChE from the University of Illinois, an MSNE from the
University of Michigan, and has completed further graduate studies at the University of
Tennessee.
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