Design and Implementation of Embedded System for Nuclear Materials Cask in Nuclear Newcomers

Nuclear newcomer countries face a number of key challenges in infrastructure development, e.g. they have not Intelligent Transportation Systems. Therefore, one of challenges is the safety and security of nuclear materials during transporting, storing and disposing. Where, nuclear and radiological terrorism continues to be a worldwide concern as the nature of security threats evolves. This paper tries to solve that challenge by design and implement of an embedded system for nuclear materials cask. This system is suitable to developing countries, where it is cost effective and it uses the existing infrastructure‏.‏ By using GPS, GSM/GPRS and microcontroller, the embedded system will enables the responsible bodies to remotely and continuously; tracking, monitoring and inspection of nuclear materials casks; during transporting, storing and disposing. The ORIGEN code is used to calculate the thermal and radioactivity loads of the cask. The application of this system allows the rapid intervention of the concerned bodies, which will prevent many accidents, in particular those caused by terrorists, like stealing or dispersing of nuclear materials.