Going the Distance? The Safe Transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in the United States (2006) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix D Glossary
Appendix D Glossary
Pages 322-335
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APPENDIX D Glossary 10 CFR Part 71: Title 10, Part 71 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Pack aging and Transportation of Radioactive Material. These regulations were promulgated by the U.S.
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323 APPENDIX D of thermal and mechanical forces that have the potential to damage the vital containment functions of the package. Accident consequence value: The estimated collective dose that would be received by a population as a result of an accident scenario.
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324 GOING THE DISTANCE? special nuclear material; and tailings or wastes produced by the extrac tion or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source material content.
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325 APPENDIX D tain its radioactive contents and maintain its radiation shielding effec tiveness during routine use and under severe accident conditions. Conventional vehicular impact: Health and safety impacts that result from both normal transportation and transportation accidents involving spent fuel and high-level waste.
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326 GOING THE DISTANCE? Equivalent dose: The absorbed dose averaged over the organ or tissue of interest multiplied by a weighting factor that accounts for the differ ences in the biological effects per unit of absorbed dose for different types of radiation.
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327 APPENDIX D der, sealed tube that holds uranium fuel pellets. Fuel rods are bundled in square-arrays bundles called fuel assemblies.
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328 GOING THE DISTANCE? cessing and any solid material derived from such liquid waste that con tains fission products in sufficient concentrations; and other highly ra dioactive material that the U.S.
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329 APPENDIX D either in pools or in dry casks. Facilities designed to store spent fuel or high-level waste from several different sites are also informally referred to as centralized interim storage facilities.
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330 GOING THE DISTANCE? that provide information on fundamental concepts and procedures for responding to radioactive materials transport incidents.
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331 APPENDIX D fuel and high-level waste to reduce the likelihood and/or consequences of accidents. Other than high-income economy countries: Defined by the U.S.
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332 GOING THE DISTANCE? horizontal surface.
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333 APPENDIX D Risk: As used in this report, the potential for an adverse effect from the transport of spent fuel or high-level waste. This potential can be esti mated quantitatively if answers to the following three questions can be obtained: (1)
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334 GOING THE DISTANCE? or any combination thereof.
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335 APPENDIX D Transportation package: In the context of this report, containers used for the transport of spent fuel or high-level waste, whether loaded or empty. Loaded packages are referred to as packages in international standards, whereas the containers themselves without their contents are referred to as packagings.
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