RADTRAN II: A COMPUTERIZED MODEL FOR RISK ANALYSIS OF TRANSPORTATION OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL

The RADTRAN computer code, which formed the basis for the 1977 US generic transportation risk assessment, has been extensively updated. The updated version of the code, denoted RADTRAN II, includes changes based on findings from other transportation risk studies as well as changes based on reevaluation of earlier assumptions, analyses, and computerization techniques. The environmental impact of the transportation of radioactive material can be envisioned as consisting of five components, incident free transport, non-radiological impacts, vehicular accidents, breaches of security/safeguards, and failures of quality assurance. RADTRAN II is designed to evaluate both the incident-free and the accident contribution directly and can be used to evaluate the contributions of breaches of security and quality assurances deviation if some alterations in coding are made. Non-radiological impacts are not addressed. (ERA citation 06:008645)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • International symposium on packaging and transporting radioactive material, Berlin, F.R. Germany, 10 Nov 1980.
• Corporate Authors:

  Sandia Laboratories

  P.O. Box 5800
  Albuquerque, NM  United States  87115

  Department of Energy

  1000 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20585
• Authors:
  • TAYLOR, J M
  • Daniel, S L
  • Biringer, B E
• Publication Date: 1980

Media Info

• Pagination: 14 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coding systems; Crash analysis; Environmental impacts; Freight transportation; Hazards; Mathematical models; Quality assurance; Radioactive materials; Risk analysis; Risk assessment; Security; Simulation; Traffic crashes; Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Computer codes; Motor vehicle accidents
• Old TRIS Terms: R codes
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General); I81: Accident Statistics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00336634
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: CONF-801115-39
• Contract Numbers: AC04-76DP00789
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 12 1981 12:00AM