Risk analysis of shipping plutonium pits and mixed oxide fuel /

(the National Environmental Protection Act) mandates that

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caldwell, Amy Baker, 1971-
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1997.
Subjects:
Online Access:Link to OAKTrust copy

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245 1 0 |a Risk analysis of shipping plutonium pits and mixed oxide fuel /  |c by Amy Baker Caldwell. 
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500 |a "Major subject: Nuclear Engineering". 
500 |a Vita. 
502 |b M.S.  |c Texas A&M University  |d 1997. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
520 |a (the National Environmental Protection Act) mandates that  
520 |a 0.89 resulting from traffic accidents. For the placement of  
520 |a along any of the three routes would receive 1.0 X 10-5 rem  
520 |a another, in this case from Pantex to Palo Verde. The total  
520 |a associated with the transportation of radioactive materials.  
520 |a be used as fuel in a commercial nuclear power plant. Any  
520 |a credible threat of war between nuclear superpowers, with its  
520 |a developed by Sandia National Laboratories for evaluating risk  
520 |a expected fatalities over a 25 year campaign duration for this  
520 |a facility located either at the Pantex Plant or the Savannah  
520 |a fatalities for this scenario over 25 years would be 0.413,  
520 |a for disposition of excess U.S. weapons plutonium is the  
520 |a from latent cancer fatalities due to radiation exposure and  
520 |a from the MOX fuel fabrication facility to the nuclear power  
520 |a fuel would need to be transported from one facility to  
520 |a identified as a national priority. The process of carrying  
520 |a is intended to demonstrate the capability to analyze the  
520 |a lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths. For this reason,  
520 |a MOX fuel would be shipped to Palo Verde. The total number of  
520 |a nuclear weapon in the hands of a terrorist organization or  
520 |a out this disposition itself carries some risks, and even  
520 |a per year or 0.25 mrem over 25 years. 
520 |a pits would be converted to MOX fuel at a fuel fabrication  
520 |a pits would need to be shipped from Pantex to SRS and then the  
520 |a plant, and possibly transportation of the plutonium from a  
520 |a plutonium, has been identified as the source of a number of  
520 |a possible consequence of billions of fatalities. However, the  
520 |a potential catastrophes. For example, just a single crude  
520 |a primary tool used for these analyses was RADTRAN, a code  
520 |a residue of the cold war, most notably the now excess weapons  
520 |a resulting from 5.29 x 10-2 latent cancer fatalities and 0.36  
520 |a risks associated with such transportation campaigns. The  
520 |a River Site (SRS), and then the MOX fuel would be ultimately  
520 |a rogue state and detonated in even a medium-sized city could  
520 |a scenario of placing the MOX fuel fabrication facility at SRS,  
520 |a scenario would be 1.06, with 0. 1 73 fatalities resulting  
520 |a shipped to a final destination of a commercial power plant,  
520 |a smaller in magnitude than those cited above, U.S. federal law  
520 |a Specifically, one possible option that has been identified  
520 |a storage site to the fuel fabrication facility. This thesis  
520 |a such process will involve the transportation of the MOX fuel  
520 |a such risks must be analyzed. The ability to carry out one  
520 |a the MOX fuel fabrication facility at Pantex, only the MOX  
520 |a the Palo Verde Generating Station in Arizona. For the  
520 |a the ultimate disposition of this excess plutonium has been  
520 |a though any conceivable consequences clearly will be much  
520 |a traffic accident fatalities. The maximum exposed individual  
520 |a transformation into mixed oxide (MOX) fuel, that then would  
520 |a transformation of plutonium pits to MOX fuel. First, the  
520 |a Two sample scenarios were explored relative to the  
520 |a type of such an analysis is demonstrated in this thesis.  
520 |a With the end of the cold war, there no longer seems to be a  
530 |a Also available online. 
530 |a Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. 
650 4 |a Major nuclear engineering. 
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