PATRAM 2025 announcements

TSUSG Members,

We wanted to share some exciting news and opportunity for our members for the PATRAM conference that will be held in San Antonio, Texas July 27 – August 1, 2025.

The Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Material (PATRAM) is a conference held every 3 years, the primary objective of the conference is to bring together international experts for scientific and technical exchange that encompasses all facets of radioactive material packaging and transport.   New for this conference, is the addition of the transportation security topic section. Through our past TSUSG annual conference, one of our members Ken Martin has been asked to lead this section.  To make this a success, we would like to invite our TSUSG members to participate by attending and/or presenting.

For this year, there is availability of grants for PATRAM 2025. These grants are generously supported by the NNSA’s Office of Radiological Security (ORS). Click here for details of the grants and how to apply.

If you are interested in participating in PATRAM 2025, please keep us, the TSUSG team up to date as we would like to see how our stakeholders are engaging and benefiting from these outreaches. More details and links are available below.

Thank you,

TSUSG

TOPIC AREAS:

Papers may include but are not limited to.

  • Package Design (including Materials and Testing)
  • Analysis (including Structural, Thermal, Containment, Shielding, Criticality, and Risk Assessment)
  • Transport Operations (including Tracking, Routing, Emergency Preparedness, Radiation Protection, Denial of Shipments, and Package Handling)
  • Regulatory & Institutional Issues (including Regulations, Codes and Standards, Communications, and Liability)
  • Content Specific Challenges (including Spent Fuel, Radio Pharmaceuticals, Large Items, UF6, NORM, Waste, Fissile Material, Orphan Sources, and Manufactured Items)
  • New trends in Packaging and Transport of Radioactive Materials (including Transportable Reactors, HALEU, Use of Drones [both beneficially and negatively], and Use of Artificial Intelligence)
  • Transportation Security (including current technologies, security risk analysis, workforce development, emerging threats and technologies, information protection, response considerations, and advanced reactor shipping)

PATRAM KEY DATES

  • PATRAM 2025 will be held in San Antonio, Texas July 27 – Aug 1, 2025. 
  • Deadline to Submit Abstracts: January 10, 2025, at 11:59 PM (Pacific Standard Time)
  • Review Period: February 1 – February 28, 2025
  • Author Notification: Starting March 1, 2025
  • Due Date for Paper Withdrawal and Author Changes (for selected abstracts): March 30, 2025
  • Final Papers Due (for selected abstracts): June 12, 2025
  • Final Presentations Due (for selected abstracts): July 7, 2025
  • Registration is currently open (for the early bird rate is before 6/8/2025). https://patram.eventscribe.net/aaStatic.asp?SFP=U1JMUUxWVUxAMTk3OTdAUmVnaXN0cmF0aW9u