Journal of Isotopes (Nov 2015)

Shielding Performance Measurements of Spent Fuel Transportation Container

  • SUN Hong-chao,
  • LI Guo-qiang,
  • YAN Feng,
  • ZHUANG Da-jie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7538/tws.2015.28.04.0270
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 4
pp. 270 – 274

Abstract

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The safety supervision of radioactive material transportation package has been further stressed and implemented. The shielding performance measurements of spent fuel transport container is the important content of supervision. However, some of the problems and difficulties reflected in practice need to be solved, such as the neutron dose rate on the surface of package is too difficult to measure exactly, the monitoring results are not always reliable, etc. The monitoring results using different spectrometers were compared and the simulation results of MCNP runs were considered. An improvement was provided to the shielding performance measurements technique and management of spent fuel transport.

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