Design of a New Type B Multi-purpose Transportation Package

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a new radioactive materials transportation package and the analyses performed on the design for engineering and licensing purposes. This new package, called the Multi-Purpose Transportation Package (MPTP) is designed to transport tritiated heavy water in a secondary container or solid radioactive material in a shielded flask. The MPTP design meets all the requirements specified in the Canadian and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Regulations, including the performance requirements under routine (incident free), normal and accident conditions of transport. An application for certification ('license') of the MPTP as a Type B(U) package has been submitted to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). When a Certificate for Transport Design is issued by the CNSC, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) will be in a position to procure an initial set of these packages.