In this study, the thermal performances of an Italian packaging system aimed at the transportation of bituminised wastes (. engulfing fire of 800 °C for 30 min according to the IAEA regulation) are presented. | Progress in Nuclear Energy 107 2018 1 9 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Progress in Nuclear Energy journal homepage locate pnucene Thermal tests of a scaled down mock-up of packaging system Post- T test analysis Rosa Lo Frano Donato Aquaro Dalila Giorla Daniele Del Serra DICI University of Pisa Pisa Italy A R T I C LE I N FO A B S T R A C T Keywords In this study the thermal performances of an Italian packaging system aimed at the transportation of Packaging system bituminised wastes . engulfing fire of 800 C for 30 min according to the IAEA regulation are presented. Due Bituminised wastes to the high risk of auto-ignition of the bituminised wastes that are stowed in the drums in turn immersed in the Engulfing fire test cement matrix of the CP it was decided to test firstly a small scale mock-up. The mock up containing only FEM one drum with bituminised waste was designed and built at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering Post-test analysis DICI of the University of Pisa. The experimental test was carried out at Lab. Guerrini of the University of Pisa. Results demonstrated that after half an hour of fire exposure at 800 C the temperature in the bituminised waste package is below that of auto-ignition of the bitumen. The obtained results allowed in addition to set up the test procedure to adopt for fire test of a full scale system. Post test analysis which was carried out by performing FEM analysis is also presented and results compared to the experimental ones. 1. Introduction and satisfy safety requirements . confinement containment and radiation protection . The qualification of a packaging system for the transport of ha- The relevance of the present study is due to the peculiarity of drums zardous radioactive materials RAM or RW must demonstrate the stored in the Italian packaging system. In fact they contain RWs container fulfils the International standard requirements IAEA 2012 low and .
