b'Commercial Lead Test Rod Transportation and PIEPrincipal Investigator: Edward MaiTeam Members/Collaborators: Eric Woolstenhulme, Susan Case, Heather Chichester, Ernesto Pitruzzella, Jason HarpEstablishing routineA ddressing the strategicholder reviews, based on current objective to efficientlyyear vendor team changes was plan, prepare, and executeconducted, and incorporated into capability to receivetransportation needs to support thea fiscal year (FY)23 ATF strategic full length ATF testAdvanced Fuels Campaign (AFC)transportation and PIE plan.rods from the fuelpost-irradiation examination (PIE) vendor teams and sharemission, our group focused its effortsStakeholders were polled in segments from themthis year on establishing theseNovember 2022 for updates to between DOE complexcritical shipping pathway tasks. defined strategic shipping events to laboratories is vital tosupport ATF PIE, and the draft ATF the strategic ability toProject Description:Program Transportation and PIE Plan conduct integrated ATFThree accomplishment areas werewas prepared and issued in January testing, and supporttargeted objectives this year: 2023 in protected form. Some future industry LWR Create a national PIE strategy,updates and vendor directed changes R&D needs long term. supported by centralized nationalidentified in the second quarter were planning and coordination ofincorporated and presented to the required transports, that meetsATF community at the April 4, 2023, the timeline and objectives ofElectric Power Research Institute Both industry and Department of(EPRI)/DOE Joint Combined Work-Energy, Office of Nuclear Energyshop on ATF and HBU. The second (DOE-NE) stakeholders in asannual NE AFC PIE Capabilities and efficient a manner as possible. Transportation Workshop was heldDevelop and complete readi- on August 8 and 9 at INL, with more ness, staging, and pre-shipmentthan 55 participants in attendance.check-listing and Idaho NationalFor the BRR cask deployment effort, Laboratory (INL) tasks requiredcontract modifications began with to ship the BEA Research ReactorORANO Federal Services in October (BRR) cask from ORNL to INL with2022 to prepare analysis and create accident tolerant fuels (ATF)/highthe Certificate of Compliance (CoC) burnup (HBU) segments revision for the BRR cask and estab- Develop and complete readiness,lished by an award in January 2023. staging, and pre-shipment check- In the course of analysis, design of listing and INL tasks required to shipnew inner containers and baskets the Nuclear Assurance Corporationwas performed to optimize handling (NAC) Legal Weight Truck (LWT)of encapsulated segments in and cask from Bryon Nuclear Generatingout of cask packaging and targeted Station (NGS) to INL with ATF/HBUhot cell handling needs. As analysis Lead Test Rods (LTR). progressed, concern overdose on Accomplishments For the nationalcask contact of the postulated loads PIE strategy formulation, arequired an iterative approach to second round of ATF/HBU stake- creating a proposed contents loading 78 2023|AFC ACCOMPLISHMENTS'