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3D Printing Possibilities: Additive Manufacturing Impact Limiters for Transportation Casks
With the significant advances in additive manufacturing (AM), otherwise known as 3D printing, Orano Federal Services and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte recently re-examined the capabilities to print impact limiters for transportation casks used to ship spent nuclear fuel. Impact limiters protect transportation casks (sometimes also referred to as transportation overpacks) and their contents during an accident. Impact limiter designs must withstand testing based on a certain significance level of hypothetical accidents, including drops, crushing, fires, and immersion in water.
Chuzo Kutsukake, Masakazu Seki, Shigeru Tanaka, Yoshikazu Oginuma, Yuichi Abe, Michinori Yamauchi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 41 | Number 3 | May 2002 | Pages 555-559
Analysis and Monitoring | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tritium Science and Technology Tsukuba, Japan November 12-16, 2001 | doi.org/10.13182/FST02-A22650
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Imaging plates were adopted as a convenient tool for measuring tritium distributions in tritium-containing components such as tritium targets, smeared sample pieces, etc. Procedure of the measurements was optimized and detailed distributions of tritium were obtained. As a result, the method was confirmed as useful in obtaining knowledge on the accelerator beam control and focusing, and the contamination check of peripheral components around tritium targets.