TY - CONF A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Favre, A. A1 - Hilbert, F. A1 - Quercetti, Thomas A1 - Neumeyer, Tino A1 - Weingart, Barbara T1 - Prototype testing of a protective structural packaging for 30B cylinder N2 - Three drop test campaigns have been performed with DN 30 Protective Structural Packaging (PSP) developed by DAHER NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGIES GmbH for the transport of natural, enriched and reprocessed uranium hexafluoride (up to 5 wt%) in 30B cylinders. The mechanical prototype testing is intended to demonstrate that the package DN30 complies with regulatory requirements under normal and hypothetical accident conditions of transport (NCT, ACT) relevant to IF, AF and B(U)F packages, respectively. The paper includes the results of the latest test campaign carried out in 2015-2016 at the drop test facility of BAM, Germany with new full scale prototypes of the DN30 PSP and 30B cylinders. Repetition of drop test sequences became necessary after changing to Polyisocyanurate foam as shock absorbing material with variable foam densities. Furthermore, the mechanical behavior of the UF6 content of the 30B cylinder is now simulated by a mixture of cement and steel grid as modified surrogate material; instead of small steel balls. The behavior of this new content simulation is assumed to be more realistic with respect to the properties of real UF6. T2 - PATRAM 2016, 18th International Symposium on the Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Materials CY - Kobe, Japan DA - 18.09.2016 KW - Drop test KW - Packaging KW - Radioactive material KW - Uranium hexafluoride PY - 2016 SP - Paper 1018, 1 EP - 11 PB - INMM CY - Deerfield, Illinois, USA AN - OPUS4-37568 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -