Designed as a B(U) Package to the IAEA Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials 1996 Revised No TS-R-1 (ST1, Revised).
Currently Certified by the UK Competent Authority: Certificate No GB/2767B/B(U)-96.
The package consists of an Outer Container Drum Design No. 2767 which carries a resealable Inner Container Design No. 2775 within insulating and shock absorbing cork packing.
The Outer Container Drum Design No. 2767 has a pressed stainless steel body with a bayonet closing action stainless steel lid.
The Inner Container Design No. 2775 is a resealable stainless steel containment vessel.
The resealable Inner Container Design No. 2775 provides the containment system for the package. The
lid of the container has a 'O' ring seal with an interspace between the 'O' ring seals; the interspace
facilities leak testing to ensure that the seals achieve the prescribed levels of leaktightness.
To reduce the possibility of contaminating the resealable Inner Container, primary containers such as
screw top cans or capsules are normally used to carry the contents.
Plutonium and Uranium Isotopes in solid or powder form.
Samples and or small quantities of radioactive material in solid form (generally elemental, oxide or carbide)
consisting of separate nuclides or mixtures of the following radioactive materials:
- Fissile excepted quantities of plutonium and uranium
- Americium, curium, neptunium, thorium, compounds and/or mixtures,
- Pu/Be or Am/Be neutron sources.
Full up to date list available upon request.
Maximum heat emission of the contents not to exceed 5 watts.
Parameter |
Outer Container 2767 |
|
| External Diameter |
245 mm |
112 mm
|
| External Height |
270 mm |
155 mm
|
| Internal Diameter |
241 mm |
84 mm
|
| Internal Height |
255 mm |
121 mm
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| Tare Weight |
5.1 kg |
6 kg |
| Maximum weight of Contents |
3.5 kg |
| Maximum weight of Package Design No 2767B including contents |
14.6 kg |
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