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The INTERTRAN code was developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency in order to provide member states with a simple and rapid method of assessing the risk involved in the transportation of radioactive materials and one that was applicable on a worldwide scale. Before being used, this code must be validated and thus the Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique compared the results obtained with the conventional risk-assessment methods used by the Centre d'Etudes sur l'Evaluation de la Protection dans le domaine Nucleaire with those derived from INTERTRAN. The results of the studies conducted on road transportation of uranium hexafluoride in France are presented. The conventional accident risk-assessment method gave a figure of 0.000884 deaths per year, whereas INTERTRAN obtained 0.0178. To these figures should be added 0.0338 deaths per year, which is the intrinsic road risk whatever the goods carried. In relation to conventional estimates, the INTERTRAN forecasts are 5 times lower for the uranium risk and 20 times higher for the hydrogen fluoride risk. The chemical risk is indeed the most prevalent one in this case. Other comparisons are needed to validate this code.

This paper appears in State-of-the-Art Report 3, Addendum: Recent Advances in Hazardous Materials Transportation Research: An International Exchange. The paper was presented at the Conference on Recent Advances in Hazardous Materials Transportation Research: An International Exchange held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 10-13, 1985.

Addendum

p. 17-23

1987

State-of-the-Art Report

0-309-03973-8

Figures (4) ; References (7) ; Tables (5)

Alternatives analysis; Conferences; Estimates; Fatalities; Forecasting; Hazardous materials; Radioactive materials; Risk assessment; Transportation; Uranium; Validation

Death rate

Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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