Page 858 - Radiation Safety

Free Drop Test

• Simulates drops during normal transport

• Specimen dropped so as

to cause maximum damage

• Dropped onto flat,

unyielding target

• Height of drop is graded

• 1.2 m if package <5000 kg

• 0.9 m if package > 5000 kg, < 10 000 kg

• 0.6 m if package > 10 000 kg, <15 000 kg

• 0.3 m if package > 15 000 kg