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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.
Dr K G Harrison, J C Waldron, J A B Gibson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 14 | Number 2 | September 1988 | Pages 1054-1057
Measurement of Tritium | doi.org/10.13182/FST88-A25277
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A prototype discriminating HT/HTO monitor was loaned to Harwell by CRNL to evaluate for possible use at the JET facility in the UK. The instrument was exposed to pure HT and HTO inputs at various concentrations, and its readings compared with those of a non-discriminating Harwell Ion Chamber (Model 1528) connected in series at the input. The rate of response, accuracy, separation factors and possible memory effects were studied at various humidities at ambient temperature, and the effects of varying process- and sample-air rates were investigated. Generally, the instrument was found to work well, although the response times for the HTO channel were generally rather slow (20–30 min to 90% of its asymptotic value), so that central sampling of a number of points in sequence via sampling lines and a manifold would be slow.