b'a shielding cask is driven by a varietyfor incident and diffracted beam are of criteria ranging from reducing theopen in the schematic. On top of the dose rates for the staff handling suchcask is the motion stage, allowing for a cask to acceptable levels to allowingaccurate vertical motion to select a neutron characterization, samplevolume along the sample length and mounting in hot cells, prevent spreadrotation for tomography and texture of contamination, fitting of the caskmeasurements. The sectional view into a Department of Transportationin Figure 1 (b) shows the volume (DOT)-approved transport cask forin which the sample resides as well shipment between INL and LANL,as the beam paths provided by the remaining intact in various accidentopened shutters. A prototype of the scenarios, the ability to cask lead intocask without the lead is fabricated the steel sheel, and having a weightand scheduled to be commissioned suitable for the involved riggingin FY21 in beamlines. Dry-runs of equipment. These criteria and thesample mounting in INL hot cells resulting design are described inare also planned. Characterization detail in a milestone report entitledof irradiated fuels with this cask is Status Report on Development ofplanned as early as FY22. Support for a Cask to Enable Pulsed Neutronthe design and prototype fabrication Characterization of Irradiated Fuel,through a FY20 LANL Technology M4FT-20LA020201022. While theEvaluation and Demonstration grant is core of the development was done bygratefully acknowledged.the team at LANL, design reviews withAs an independent step to establish collaborators from INL and ORNLprocedures at LANL to characterize were conducted. Besides the AFC- irradiated and therefore highly radio-2C/2D MOX fuels, the cask is capableactive samples with pulsed neutrons to handle other fuel geometries with aat the Los Alamos Neutron Science maximum diameter of 0.5 inches andCenter (LANSCE), procedures were maximum capsule length of 6 inches. developed to characterize an irradi-Figure 1 (a) shows a schematic of theated U-10Zr-1Pd sample irradiated cask sitting on a base plate attachingin the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR). to alignment equipment. The pneu- This sample has a dose rate of ~3R/matically actuated shutter windowshr on contact and can be handled with 80 2020|AFC ACCOMPLISHMENTS'