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|a Caldwell, Amy Baker,
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|a Risk analysis of shipping plutonium pits and mixed oxide fuel /
|c by Amy Baker Caldwell.
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|a [Place of publication not identified] :
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|c 1997.
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|a x, 106 leaves :
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|c 28 cm.
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|a "Major subject: Nuclear Engineering".
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|a Vita.
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|c Texas A&M University
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|a Includes bibliographical references.
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|a (the National Environmental Protection Act) mandates that
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|a 0.89 resulting from traffic accidents. For the placement of
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|a along any of the three routes would receive 1.0 X 10-5 rem
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|a another, in this case from Pantex to Palo Verde. The total
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|a associated with the transportation of radioactive materials.
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|a be used as fuel in a commercial nuclear power plant. Any
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|a credible threat of war between nuclear superpowers, with its
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|a developed by Sandia National Laboratories for evaluating risk
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|a expected fatalities over a 25 year campaign duration for this
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|a facility located either at the Pantex Plant or the Savannah
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|a fatalities for this scenario over 25 years would be 0.413,
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|a for disposition of excess U.S. weapons plutonium is the
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|a from latent cancer fatalities due to radiation exposure and
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|a from the MOX fuel fabrication facility to the nuclear power
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|a fuel would need to be transported from one facility to
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|a identified as a national priority. The process of carrying
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|a is intended to demonstrate the capability to analyze the
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|a lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths. For this reason,
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|a MOX fuel would be shipped to Palo Verde. The total number of
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|a nuclear weapon in the hands of a terrorist organization or
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|a out this disposition itself carries some risks, and even
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|a per year or 0.25 mrem over 25 years.
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|a pits would be converted to MOX fuel at a fuel fabrication
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|a pits would need to be shipped from Pantex to SRS and then the
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|a plant, and possibly transportation of the plutonium from a
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|a plutonium, has been identified as the source of a number of
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|a possible consequence of billions of fatalities. However, the
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|a potential catastrophes. For example, just a single crude
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|a primary tool used for these analyses was RADTRAN, a code
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|a residue of the cold war, most notably the now excess weapons
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|a resulting from 5.29 x 10-2 latent cancer fatalities and 0.36
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|a risks associated with such transportation campaigns. The
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|a River Site (SRS), and then the MOX fuel would be ultimately
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|a rogue state and detonated in even a medium-sized city could
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|a scenario of placing the MOX fuel fabrication facility at SRS,
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|a scenario would be 1.06, with 0. 1 73 fatalities resulting
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|a shipped to a final destination of a commercial power plant,
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|a smaller in magnitude than those cited above, U.S. federal law
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|a Specifically, one possible option that has been identified
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|a storage site to the fuel fabrication facility. This thesis
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|a such process will involve the transportation of the MOX fuel
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|a such risks must be analyzed. The ability to carry out one
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|a the MOX fuel fabrication facility at Pantex, only the MOX
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|a the Palo Verde Generating Station in Arizona. For the
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|a the ultimate disposition of this excess plutonium has been
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|a though any conceivable consequences clearly will be much
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|a traffic accident fatalities. The maximum exposed individual
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|a transformation into mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, that then would
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|a transformation of plutonium pits to MOX fuel. First, the
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|a Two sample scenarios were explored relative to the
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|a type of such an analysis is demonstrated in this thesis.
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|a With the end of the cold war, there no longer seems to be a
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|a Also available online.
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|a Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
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