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RUSSIAN-ORIGIN HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL SHIPMENT FROM BULGARIA [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. National Nuclear Security Administration, 2009.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Idaho National Laboratory, United States. National Nuclear Security Administration, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
In July 2008, the Global Threat Reduction Initiative and the IRT 2000 research reactor in Sofia, Bulgaria, operated by the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE), safely shipped 6.4 kilograms of Russian origin highly enriched uranium (HEU) spent nuclear fuel (SNF) to the Russian Federation. The shipment, which resulted in the removal of all HEU from Bulgaria, was conducted by truck, barge, and rail modes of transport across two transit countries before reaching the final destination at the Production Association Mayak facility in Chelyabinsk, Russia. This paper describes the work, equipment, organizations, and approvals that were required to complete the spent fuel shipment and provides lessons learned that might assist other research reactor operators with their own spent nuclear fuel shipments.
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E 1.99:inl/con-09-15741
inl/con-09-15741
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Published through SciTech Connect.
07/01/2009.
"inl/con-09-15741"
INMM 50th Annual Meeting,Tucson, Arizona,07/12/2009,07/16/2009.
Tihomir Apostolov; Igor Bolshinsky; Ken Allen; Kelly Cummins; Ivaylo Dimitrov.
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DE-AC07-05ID14517
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