December 1995 Las Vegas meeting

An important outgrowth of transportation technology development activities at Sandia have been the international symposiums on Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Materials (PATRAM). The purpose of these symposiums has been to offer guidance to the nuclear transportation industry on technical advances in container development. The first symposium, sponsored by the AEC and Sandia, was held in Albuquerque in 1965. Since that time, 10 PATRAM conferences have been held both in the U.S. and in foreign countries--among the cities that have hosted PATRAM meetings have been Washington, D.C., Berlin, New Orleans, Miami Beach, Yokohama, and Las Vegas. The next meeting in 1998 will be held in Paris.