Test of a Sample Container for Shipment of Small Size Plutonium Samples with PAT-2

摘要

A light-weight container for the air transport of plutonium, to be designated PAT-2, has been developed in the USA and is presently undergoing licensing. The very limited effective space for bearing plutonium required the design of small size sample canisters to meet the needs of international safeguards for the shipment of plutonium samples. The applicability of a small canister for the sampling of small size powder and solution samples has been tested in an intralaboratory experiment. The results of the experiment, based on the concept of pre-weighed samples, show that the tested canister can successfully be used for the sampling of small size PuO sub 2 -powder samples of homogeneous source material, as well as for dried aliquands of plutonium nitrate solutions. (Atomindex citation 16:002596)