Radioactive Materials Transport and Storage Conference and ExhibitionFacing the Global Challenge

Conference and exhibition:19-21 May 2015The Oxford Hotel,

Godstow Road, Oxford, OX2 8AL

Conference technical visit: (open to all delegates)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Conference Dinner:20 May 2015

Macdonald Randolph HotelBeaumont St, Oxford OX1 2LN

www.ramtransport2015.com

Registration fees:(Includes attendance to the sessions, lunches, refreshments and the conference dinner.)

DELEGATE FEE VAT TOTALStandard Fee £695.00 £139.00 £834.00NI Member £625.00 £125.00 £750.00NI Partner Company £625.00 £125.00 £750.00NI Company Member £660.00 £132.00 £792.00Academic rate* £347.00 £69.00 £416.00Conference dinner-guest** £80.00 £16.00 £96.00

* The discounted rate is available to anyone working full-time in the world of academia. Proof of work will be required.

**The conference dinner guest dinner ticket option is available only to already registered delegates

The Nuclear Institute welcomes you to Oxford!

Oxford is to be the host city for the Nuclear Institute’s tenth conference on Radioactive Materials Transport and Storage, from the 19th to the 21st May 2015. This is a major event in the transport and storage calendar and developers, users, regulators and stakeholders are invited to meet and discuss the challenges to be faced in meeting the demands of an ever more globalized radioactive materials industry.

Radioactive materials play a vital, if often unseen, role in everyone’s lives, and their safe transport and storage are key to a vibrant industry that serves not only energy generation but a host of applications including oil extraction, industrial inspection and gauging, communication, sterilizing, fire detection and numerous medical diagnostic and treatment procedures.

Recent global developments bear heavily on the nuclear and related industries, and on their supporting transport and storage activities. The effects of the tsunami in 2011 have brought forth requirements for the handling of radioactive products and spawned new initiatives to ensure the safety of operation of nuclear installations. These will affect the specification of new generation facilities to be constructed following recent decisions and contracts, as well as demanding increased safety and security of materials in existing installations.

Decommissioning of outdated power stations and nuclear processing facilities continues to produce new challenges in the handling and transport of large and unusual radioactive items, and large quantities of solid and liquid wastes. The increasing stockpiles of spent fuel and reprocessing wastes are presenting an ever-growing challenge with the lack of secure central permanent storage facilities, which is likely to remain the case in some territories for the foreseeable future. The security of radioactive materials against malicious threats continues to be an international issue, and moves to relocate and contain potentially harmful materials such as the Global Threat Reduction Programme give rise to fresh transport and storage requirements.

Regulations for the safe transport of radioactive materials are continually updated to reflect safety and operational pressures, and the increasingly global nature of the industry is driving the harmonization of requirements and guidance materials across national authorities.

The conference will address these issues on all aspects of radioactive materials transport and storage. It will provide a forum for all involved in these important sectors of the nuclear and related industries to share information and experience and to renew and develop their professional and business contacts.

As with previous conferences in this series, the event will be complemented by an exhibition in which suppliers of relevant goods and services are invited to participate, and by a technical visit in the local area. We look forward to welcoming you to Oxford in May 2015.

Day 1

1300-1400 Registration1400-1730 Tech visit1800-2000 Drinks reception

Day 2

0800-0900 Registration0900-0910 Chairmans Introduction0910-0930 Keynote speech

(paper ref)

Session 1 Transport Operations Session Chair: Gerry Holden

0930-0950 2 CONSORT Defueling and Transport of Research Reactor Fuel Heather Phillips

0950-1010 30 Experience feedback from BAM safety assessment regarding package containment and quality management Martin Neumann

1010 -1030 4 Determination of material parameters of damping concrete under dynamic loads Robert Scheidemann

1030-1035 Q&A1035-1100 Refreshment break

(paper ref)

Session 2 - Package Performance and Testing Session Chair: Anindya Sen

1100-1120 1 Combustion of wood encapsulated in steel sheets during fire test Martin Feldkamp

1120-1140 12 Thermal Degradation of Neutron Shielding Material under Accident Conditions Anthony Cory

1140-1200 21 Aspects of Gas Generation caused by residual Water inside ILW Packages Marko Nehrig

1200-1220 26 Further research on cask impact limiters needed? Eva Kasparek

1220-1225 Q&A1225-1330 Lunch

(paper ref)

Session 3 - Containment and Seals Edmund Morgan-Warren

1330-1350 11 Determination of the Leak tightness of 205 litre drums and mode of failure Gerry Holden

1350-1410 31 Investigation of Elastomer Seal Behaviour for Transport and Storage Packages Matthias Jaunich

1410-1430 33 Consideration of Gaps between Content and Lid within Package Design Assessment Frank Wille

1430-1450 7 Interaction between transport and storage for dual purpose cask of spent nuclear fuel Toshiara Saegusa

1450-1455 Q&A1455-1520 Refreshment break

(paper ref)

Session 4 - Numerical Modelling and Analysis Session Chair: Chi Fung Tso

1520-1540 5 CFD analysis of AGR spent fuel disposal container and long term prediction of its thermal behaviour and pressurization Kevin Malone

1540-1600 8 Benchmarking FEA Codes for Stress Analysis of Drop Tests of Ductile Cast Iron Containers (DCICs) Bob Vaughan

1600-1620 27 Strategies for Numerical Modelling of Metal Gaskets in Transport and Storage Casks Uwe Zencker

1620-1640 28 NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF ELASTOMERIC SEALS UNDER CONSIDERATION OF TIME DEPENDENT EFFECTS Mike Weber

1640-1700 35 A Finite Element Implementation of the ASME Section VIII Protection Against Local Failure Assessment for Transient Dynamics in Accident Conditions of Transport Andrew Cummings

1700-1705 Q&A

Day 3

0800-0900 Registration (paper

ref)Session 5 - Design and Development Session Chair: Bernhard Droste

0900-0920 17 DEVELOPMENT OF A MULTI--PURPOSE CONTAINER SYSTEM FOR THE STORAGE, TRANSPORT AND DISPOSAL OF PWR SPENT FUEL IN THE UK Conrad Izatt

0920-0940 19 Development Of A Type B(U)F Package Design To Withstand Impact Loadings Arising From A High Mass Payload Peter Purcell

0940-1000 29 Important aspects in design approval of special form radioactive material Annette Rolle

1000-1005 Q&A1005-1030 Refreshment break

(paper ref)

Session 6 - Spent Fuel and Waste Transport Peter Purcell

1030-1050 6 Safety Aspects of Dual and Multi-Purpose Casks for Radioactive Materials Bernhard Droste

1050-1110 15 DEVELOPMENT OF DISPOSAL CONTAINER DESIGNS FOR DISPOSAL OF LEGACY HIGH LEVEL WASTE AND SPENT FUEL IN THE UK Neil Carr

1110-1130 13 DESIGNING PACKAGES FOR STORAGE, TRANSPORT AND DISPOSAL OF INTERMEDIATE LEVEL WASTE IN THE UK Trevor Tait

1130-1150 16 Development of the RWM standard 500 litre drum stillage for interim storage, transport and disposal at a GDF John Read

1150-1155 Q&A1200-1330 Lunch and

POSTER SESSION/NETWORKING/EXHIBITION (paper

ref)Session 7 - Fissile Materials and Criticality Session Chair: TBA

1330-1350 9 Benefits Resulting from the Use of Multiple Water Barriers in the Criticality Assessment of Package Designs Dominic Winstanley

1350-1410 22 Development of fissile package contents limits for intermediate level waste packages Iain Phimister

1410-1430 14 Transport of Legacy Unirradiated MOX by Adapting Existing Packaging - A Criticality Viewpoint Michelle Nuttall

1435-1500 23 Development of an application for approval of a design of material as fissile excepted Iain Phimister

1500-1505 Q&A1505-1530 Refreshment break

(paper ref)

Session 8 - Safety and Security Gerry Holden

1530-1550 34 Regional Networks for the Transport of Radioactive Material Loris Rossi

1550-1610 36 Adopting outcome based security measures to a specialist Nuclear Transport Vessel, an insight from International Nuclear Services Ltd. Ben Whittard

1610-1630 37 From chaos to calm in one injunction Khalil Bukhari

1630-1650 38 The role of International Nuclear Services in Global Threat Reduction Matt Fox

1650-1655 Q&A1655-1700 Chairmans closing comments

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STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS• Betty Bonnardel Azzarelli

World Nuclear Transport Institute

• Stephen CleggTopspeed Couriers Limited

• John Harvey RWM

• Gerry Holden – ChairmanGVH Projects Ltd

• Madhu Madhavi Nuclear Institute

• Edmund Morgan-Warren Nuclear Institute

• Peter PurcellINS

• Chi-Fung TsoArup

• Anindya SenONR – Radioactive Materials Transport

CORRESPONDING MEMBERS• Marc Andre Charette

Cameco Corporation

• Bernhard DrosteBAM: Bundesanstalt fur Materialforchung und-prufung

• Pierre MalesysAREVA

• Toshiari SaegusaCentral Research Institute Of Electric Power Industries (CRIEPI)

To register your interest for this conference, please visit

www.ramtransport2015.com

CONFERENCE VENUE:

The conference will be held at the Oxford Hotel, one of the city’s leading four-star hotels, located only two miles from the City Centre and minutes from the A34 and M40.

Hotel Facilities also includes paid dining options, health and fitness club and car parking for over 250 cars.

We have limited rooms available at discounted rate, book your accommodation now. To book: www.ramtransport2015.com/accommodation

The Conference Banquet Dinner will be held at the Macdonald Randolph Hotel, Oxford’s leading 5-star hotel. Macdonald Randolph Hotel is a landmark building with elegance and charm aplenty. For nearly 150 years it has played host to world leaders, Prime Ministers and Presidents. Hotel’s Morse Bar is instantly recognizable as the watering hole of Colin Dexter’s detective series Morse and then Lewis.

ABOUT OXFORD:

Oxford, The City of Dreaming Spires, is famous the world over for its University and place in history. For over 800 years, it has been a home to royalty and scholars, and since the 9th century an established town, although people are known to have lived in the area for thousands of years.

Nowadays, the city is a bustling cosmopolitan town. Still with its ancient University, but home also to a growing hitech community. Many businesses are located in and around the town, whether on one of the Science and Business Parks or within one of a number of residential areas. With its mix of ancient and modern, there is plenty for both the tourist and resident to do. For more options on places to visit: www.oxfordcity.co.uk/

Conference detailsFor further information on the conference please contact: Madhu Madhavi, The Nuclear Institute T: +44 (0) 203 475 4701 E: events@nuclearinst.com

Exhibition detailsThere will be an exhibition running parallel to the conference. For further information please contact: Lisa Jones-Taylor, Nu-Tech Associates Ltd T: +44 (0) 1946-695554 E: sales@nu-techassoc.co.uk www.exhibitions4industry.com

Corporate Sponsorship OpportunitiesThere will be several key corporate sponsorship opportunities in relation to individual elements of the conference and social programme. Priority in allocating sponsorship packages will be given to suppliers and organisations depending upon the level of sponsorship on a first come, first served basis. For further information about sponsorship packages, please contact the exhibition organisers: Lisa Jones-Taylor, Nu-Tech Associates Ltd T: +44 (0) 1946-695554 E: sales@nu-techassoc.co.uk