EXTENDED STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION: EVALUATION OF DRYING ADEQUACY

for submission to the subject category on the Engineered Systems at the 14th International High-Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference (IHLRWMC): Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, April 28─May 2, 2013 Extended Storage and Transportation: Evaluation of Drying Adequacy Tae Ahn, Hundal Jung,* Pavan K. Shukla, Earl L. Tipton, Kaushik Das, Xihua He, and Robert E. Einziger U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, USA Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses (CNWRA), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA *Current Address: XODUS GROUP, 10111 Richmond Avenue, Suite 150, Houston, Texas 77042, USA Contact: T. Ahn, tae.ahn@nrc.gov, Telephone: +1-301-492-3150

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