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NTS is the leading global provider of safe, secure and reliable nuclear transport and logistics solutions that help make the world safer and more sustainable. We support the global nuclear market by providing standalone or end-to-end solutions to nuclear transport and logistics challenges.
NTS have been successful in receiving funding from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) Nuclear Fuel Fund (NFF) to develop a new IAEA SSR-6 compliant transport package.
The package shall be designed to transport High Assay Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU) in multiple forms to support the front-end fuel cycle of the UKs Gen-IV Advanced Modular Reactor (AMR) development strategy. Due to the UKs history of operating gas cooled reactors, the Gen-IV reactor technology of choice is likely to be a High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor that utilizes TRISO fuel.
The HALEU Transport Package (HTP) has been designed with an interchangeable basket to allow an array of contents to be transported. As Gen-IV reactors are still in development, the fuel specification and design are not yet fixed. Therefore NTS have focused on the transport of HALEU powder (U235 ≤ 20% enrichment) in cans from deconversion facilities to fuel manufacturing facilities.
The package incorporates features from a number of existing NTS package designs and utilizes both a Multiple Water Barrier and Commercial off the Shelf material to simplify package licensing and manufacture.
This paper provides an overview of the HTP design with a focus on the challenges of developing a package with an assumed contents specification.
| Country OR International Organization | United Kingdom |
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| Email address | adam.lever@ntsglobal.uk |
| Confirm that the work is original and has not been published anywhere else | NO |
