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原文传递 Estimates of fire environments in ship holds containing radioactive material packages

题名：	Estimates of fire environments in ship holds containing radioactive material packages
作者：	Wix, S.D.;Hohnstreiter, G.F.;Cole, J.K.;Koski, J.A.;
关键词：	05 NUCLEAR FUELS ;42 ENGINEERING NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CATEGORIES ; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; MARITIME TRANSPORT; PACKAGING; DESIGN; FIRES; ACCIDENTS; FIRE HAZARDS; FIRE PREVENTION; SAFETY ENGINEERING; CONTAINERS
摘要：	Fire environments that occur on cargo ships differ significantly from the fire environments found in land transport. Cargo ships typically carry a large amount of flammable fuel for propulsion and shipboard power, and may transport large quantities of flammable cargo. As a result, sea mode transport accident records contain instances of long lasting and intense fires. Since Irradiated Nuclear Fuel (INF) casks are not carried on tankers with large flammable cargoes, most of these dramatic, long burning fires are not relevant threats, and transport studies must concentrate on those fires that are most likely to occur. By regulation, INF casks must be separated from flammable cargoes by a fire-resistant, liquid-tight partition. This makes a fire in an adjacent ship hold the most likely fire threat. The large size of a cargo ship relative to any spent nuclear fuel casks on board, however, may permit a severe, long lasting fire to occur with little or no thermal impact on the casks. Although some flammable materials such as shipping boxes or container floors may exist in the same hold with the cask, the amount of fuel available may not provide a significant threat to the massive transport casks used for radioactive materials. This shipboard fire situation differs significantly from the regulatory conditions specified in 10 CFR 71 for a fully engulfing pool fire. To learn more about the differences, a series of simple thermal analyses has been completed to estimate cask behavior in likely marine and land thermal accident situations. While the calculations are based on several conservative assumptions, and are only preliminary, they illustrate that casks are likely to heat much more slowly in shipboard hold fires than in an open pool fire. The calculations also reinforce the basic regulatory concept that for radioactive materials, the shipping cask, not the ship, is the primary protection barrier to consider.
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