High-Capacity, High-Strength Trailer Designs for the GA-4/GA-9 Casks

by N. Douglas Rickard, General Atomics, San Diego, United States,
John A. Kissinger, General Atomics, San Diego, United States,
Chad Taylor, General Atomics, San Diego, United States,
Alan Zimmer, General Atomics, San Diego, United States,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: High Level Radioactive Waste Management 1991

Abstract:

General Atomics (GA) is developing final designs for two dedicated legal-weight trailers to transport the GA-4 and GA-9 Spent-Fuel Casks. The basic designs for these high-capacity, high-strength trailers are essentially identical except for small modifications to account for the differences in cask geometry. We are designing both trailers to carry a 55,000 lb (24,900 kg) payload and to withstand a 2.5 g vertical design load. The GA-4 and GA-9 trailers are designed for significantly higher loads than are typical commercial semitrailers, which are designed to loads in the range of 1.7 to 2.0 g. To meet the federal gross vehicle weight limit for legal-weight trucks, GA has set a target design weight for the trailers of 9000 lb (4080 kg). This weight includes the personnel barrier, cask tiedowns, and impact limiter removal and storage system. Based on the preliminary trailer designs, the final design weight will to be very close to this target weight.

Subject Headings: Structural design | Fuels | Nuclear power | Load factors | Vertical loads | Trucks | Radioactive wastes

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