Training Course:
Application of the ASME Code to Radioactive Material Transportation Packaging

March 25-27, 2008

9700 South Cass Ave., Bldg. 460
Argonne, IL 60439

Description:

The goal of the course is to provide guidance for the application of the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel (B&PV) Code to high-level radioactive materials or fissile material packaging for the transport or storage of radioactive materials. The objective of the course is to facilitate the design, fabrication, examination, and testing of packaging that meets all the applicable ASME Code requirements and all the governing federal requirements and regulations.

The course will provide insight on the DOE/NRC packaging certification process, with examples drawn from real-world applications.

The target audience is DOE and contractor personnel, other agency personnel, and commercial packaging engineering personnel. Those responsible for design, fabrication, or evaluation of Type B or fissile material packaging, as well as preparation or review of the associated safety analysis reports, would also benefit.

Staff:

Guest Lecturers:

Allen Smith (SRNL), Fellow Engineer

Kim Hardin (NRC), Project Manager, Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Division
Gordon Bjorkmann (NRC), Senior Technical Advisor, Spent Fuel Storage and Transportation Division

Agenda:

Day 1: 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Day 2: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Day 3: 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

This classroom course, last given in June 2006 for the ninth time, consists of technical presentations, discussions, and examples. The emphasis is on understanding the regulatory basis, current design practice, and engineering rationale for applying the ASME Code to packaging for radioactive materials. Course highlights include lectures on the following:

• Overview of federal regulations that govern transportation packagings for radioactive materials, how these regulations led to the use of the ASME Code, a brief explanation of how the B&PV Code evolved, and a discussion of how the current code is organized and structured.
• General background and structure of the code, with emphasis on the NUPACK Code; however, Section III, Division 1, and Section VIII, Division 1, are also discussed.
• Technical content of each of the code articles and application to federal requirements for packaging certification, with lectures on general requirements, structural materials, design and stress analysis, bolting analysis, buckling, brittle fracture, fabrication, examination, testing, quality assurance, and other aspects of packaging certification.
• Physical testing as an accepted method of design qualification, and demonstration of the application of appropriate ASME Code rules in such cases.
• Example of a code design for a containment vessel for radioactive material.
• How to show that the code requirements have been met when applying to packaging.

Course Materials:

All participants will receive a copy of the course instruction visuals based on the ASME B&PV Code, selected key references, as well as a Certificate of Completion of the ASME Code Training Course. (Note: Participants are required to stay the entire course in order to receive the Certificate of Completion.)

Register: Fill out the online registration page.