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Re: DoT Packaging

To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: DoT Packaging
From: Al Tschaeche <antatnsu@pacbell.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:01:53 -0800
Organization: Nuclear Standards Unlimited
References: <s888365d.040@mail.dnr.state.ga.us><3.0.1.32.20000121152049.009d7360@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Reply-to: antatnsu@pacbell.net

Not quite true.  There are significant accident conditions that packagings must survive in DOT and NRC requirements.  Think of the RR engine driven into the spent fuel shipping cask, and the fire the cask must survive, all to simulate an
accident.

Al Tschaeche antatnsu@pacbell.net

Tad Blanchard wrote:

> As I understand DOT regulations, packagings are designed for "normal conditions during transport" and NOT accident situations.

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References:
- Re: emergency responders -Reply
  - From: Jim Hardeman <Jim_Hardeman@mail.dnr.state.ga.us>
- DoT Packaging
  - From: Tad Blanchard <Tad.M.Blanchard.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>

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