Aug, 2026
ORNL Report
Integrated Security and Safety Monitoring System Project: Revenue Service Test Report
The purpose of this test report is to document the results of the testing required by S-2043, Section 6.3.4 Demonstration Run.
Publications
Showing 35 results for Author: Andrew G. Harter
Aug, 2026
ORNL Report
Integrated Security and Safety Monitoring System Project: System Functional Test Report
The purpose of this test report is to document the results of the system functional testing required by Standard S-2043, Section 6.2.1.
Aug, 2026
ORNL Report
Integrated Security and Safety Monitoring System Project: AAR Failure Simulations Test Report
The purpose of this test report is to document the results of the testing required by S-2043, Section 6.2.2, Failure Simulations.
Aug, 2026
Conference Paper
DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED SECURITY AND SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM FOR SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL AND HIGH-LEVEL WASTE TRANSPORTATION
This paper provides an overview of the progress to date, and discussion of the path forward, related to designing, fabricating, and testing an integrated security and safety monitoring system (ISSMS) for railcars used to transport spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) in the United States. The system will comply with the US Department of Energy’s…
May, 2026
ORNL Report
Integrated Security and Safety Monitoring System Requirements Document, Revision 5
This SRD provides the system-level requirements (SR) for ISSMS as derived from the ISSMS Program Requirements (PR) which includes both the top-level program requirements and the detailed requirements for each topic.
Jan, 2026
ORNL Report
Integrated Security and Safety Monitoring System Project: Prototype 6A Part 2 MxV Rail Test Report
This test report discusses the results of tests conducted at MxV Rail’s (MxV) facility in Pueblo, Colorado for the Department of Energy’s Integrated Security and Safety Monitoring System (ISSMS) project as a continuation of testing on Prototype 6A, a single unit on the Atlas A-End.
Jan, 2026
ORNL Report
Integrated Security and Safety Monitoring System Project: Prototype 6A MxV Rail Test Report
This test report describes the tests conducted at MxV Rail’s (MxV) facility in Pueblo, Colorado for the Department of Energy’s Integrated Security and Safety Monitoring System (ISSMS) project on Prototype 6A.
Dec, 2025
Conference Paper
MAVNet: Design of a Reliable Beyond Visual Line of Sight Communication System for Unmanned Vehicles
This paper details the design and system components of the Multi-Modal Autonomous Vehicle Network system (MAVNet). MAVNet was designed to provide reliable and redundant command, control and payload data distribution for unmanned vehicles operating beyond visual line of sight. Current industry solutions do not adequately solve key networking challenges, do not support netwo…
Dec, 2025
ORNL Report
DOE System Safety Monitoring Preliminary Design Report for AAR
The integrated security and safety monitoring system (ISSMS) is for the US Department of Energy (DOE) spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) railcars to monitor and report safety and security parameters. The purpose of this preliminary design report is to provide AAR Engineering Equipment Committee information required by S-2043, Section 4.7.8, Sys…
Dec, 2025
ORNL Report
ISSMS System Design Description
This System Design Description (SDD) document records the developing design information for the Integrated Security and Safety Monitoring System (ISSMS) project, which is a system to monitor and report safety and security parameters for the US Department of Energy's spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLRW) railcars.
Dec, 2025
ORNL Report
ISSMS System Design Description, R1
This system design description (SDD) document records the developing design information for the integrated security and safety monitoring system (ISSMS) project. The purpose of the ISSMS is to develop a system for monitoring and reporting on safety and security parameters for US Department of Energy (DOE) spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level radioactive waste (HLW) rail…
Dec, 2025
ORNL Report
ISSMS Prototype System Design Report, R4
This design report provides the progress made in fiscal year (FY) 2025 and appendices that document the work completed this year on the ISSMS design, fabrication and testing.