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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.
12th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2021)
Technical Session|Panel
Tuesday, June 15, 2021|12:00–1:45PM EDT
Session Chair:
Brent D. Shumaker (AMS)
Session Organizer:
Staff Producer:
John Fabian (ANS)
With a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation (AMS) prepared a topical report and submitted it to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 2020 for approval to extend the calibration intervals of nuclear plant pressure, level, and flow transmitters based on the results of online monitoring (OLM) analysis. Panelists will discuss the topical report and other applications of OLM technologies which are being used today to improve safety and efficiency in the nuclear fleet.
Paul Goffin
EDF
Jamie Coble
Univ. of Tennessee Knoxville
John Petriccione
Exelon
David Rahn
NRC
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