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

March 26-28, 2013

Training Course Description

The goal of the course is to provide guidance for the application of the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel (B&PV) Code to packaging for the transportation of high-level radioactive materials or fissile materials. The course objective is to facilitate the design, fabrication, examination, and testing of a 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. Examples will be drawn from real-world applications.

The target audience is DOE and contractors, other agency personnel, and commercial packaging engineering employees. Those responsible for designing, fabricating, or evaluating Type B or fissile material packaging, as well as preparing or reviewing the associated safety analysis reports, will also benefit.

Agenda

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

This is a classroom course, last given in March 2011 for the 12th time. It consists of technical presentations, discussions, examples, and problem solving with emphasis on understanding the regulatory basis, current design practice, and engineering rationale for applying the ASME Code to packaging for transportation of radioactive materials. Course highlights include lectures on the following:

• Overview of federal regulations that govern transportation packaging for radioactive materials
• Overview of DOE and NRC guidance documents, including regulatory guides
• General background and structure of the Code, with emphasis on the NUPACK Code (Section III, Division 3), including discussion of Section III, Division 1 and Section VIII, Division 1
• Current activities in the NUPACK Code, including strain-based criteria
• Code and non-code structural materials, containment loading and design with emphasis on design-by-analysis rules, significance of stress limits, bolt stress analysis, behavior of bolted closure, thermal stress analysis, design for hypothetical accident conditions, and brittle fracture protection
• Design of containment internal support structures, buckling analysis, including Code Case N-284
• Fabrication, weld, examination and test requirements, and quality assurance
• Design qualification by physical testing, containment requirements for leakage rates
• Solution of problems to illustrate the Code application

Location:
The training course will be held at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Illinois. Class will be held in Conference Room D-120 in Building 203.

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Course Materials

All participants of this course 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 for the entire course in order to receive a Certificate of Completion.)

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Course Fee:

The registration fee for this course is $800 ($700 if registered before February 25, 2013). A processing fee of $100 will be charged for cancellation until/on March 20, 2013. No refund will be issued after March 20, 2013.

Course Registration: Click here to register for the course.