Side Orientation Design Evaluation Testing of the Defense High Level Waste Cask

摘要

The Defense High Level Waste (DHLW) cask is a Type B packaging currently under development by the US Department of Energy. The transport system is designed to meet a legal weight truck limit of 80,000 lb. Type B packagings for transporting radioactive materials are required to maintain containment and shielding after being exposed to the normal and hypothetical accident environments defined in Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 71. A combination of testing and analysis were used to verify the adequacy of this design. This report describes a test program conducted to evaluate the response of three configurations of the DHLW cask design to side impacts from 0.3 m (1 ft) and 9 m (30 ft). Six quarter-scale model tests were performed at Sandia National Laboratories to provide experimental data for design evaluation. This document presents the data from this test program. 9 refs., 32 figs., 2 tabs. (ERA citation 13:034526)