Re: Type B Package Tests on a Spec DOT 6M package

["J. Andrew Tompkins" <jatalbq@mindspring.com>]

Jeff, 
The DOT Specification 6M packages were used by AEC and DOE for
many years.  The documented testing can be found in many government
Reports on the subject:

ORNL/TM-8340, The ORNL DOT 6M Special Form Package, 1982.

SAND-88-3005, A Review of the Safety Features of 6M Packagings, 1988
(definitive)

PNL-5747, Radioactive Particulate Release Associated with the DOT 6M
Container under Hypothetical Accident Conditions, 1986

PNL-5591, Gas Leak Characteristics of Inner Packaging Components Used in
the DOT 6M Container, 1985.

Please note that DOT plans to eliminate use of this specification
container at some date in the near future.

Andy Tompkins
LANL/E/WM Off-site Source Recovery Project


At 12:58 PM 2/12/01 -0600, you wrote:
> I recently purchased three 10 gallon DOT 6M
> Type B containers.  When I
> requested the package test results the manufacturer stated the
> following:
> "CFR 49, which we build the container I.A.W., does not require
> testing as it
> does for the Type A packages."  I've reviewed 49 CFR and 10 CFR
> 71 and I
> could not find anything that said that a DOT Specification 6M metal
> packaging was exempt from the accident conditions testing.  Any
> ideas?
>
> Jeff Ching
> Health Physics Manager UCD/MNRC
> E-Mail  chingj@saic.com
> Phone  (916) 614-6200
> Fax      (916) 614-6250
>
>
>
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J. Andrew Tompkins

Woodstock, GA


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