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Title: Clear Thinking on Nuclear: Transportation issues


1
Clear Thinking on Nuclear Transportation issues
  • Experience, planning, and preparedness
  • Well designed and thoroughly tested containers
  • Coordinated efforts among federal and local
    officials

2
Experience, planning, and preparedness
  • The US has a half-century of experience
    transporting radioactive materials with no
    radioactive materials being released.
  • Over the last 40 years, 3,000 shipments on spent
    nuclear fuel have navigated more than 1.7 million
    miles of US roads and railways.
  • Every shipment is carefully tracked and monitored
    along public routes that must meet strict safety
    requirements.

3
Well designed and thoroughly tested containers
  • Shipping packages, or casks, are designed
    according to rigorous standards established by
    the Department of Transportation and the Nuclear
    Regulatory Commission.
  • The casks are about 15 times thicker than a
    gasoline tank truck shell and they include three
    inches of stainless steel with thick lead
    radiation shields.
  • Typically, for every ton of fuel, there are more
    than three tons of protective packaging and
    shielding.

4
Coordinated efforts among federal and local
officials
  • The DOT identifies "preferred routes," of
    interstate highways and bypass routes around
    cities. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission
    approves all transportation security plans.
  • Satellite tracking of all shipped casks is
    utilized to ensure location, and the dates of
    shipments are not publicized.
  • Experienced, specially licensed trucking
    companies handle spent nuclear fuel shipments, in
    addition to many other hazardous materials, in
    the United States.

5
ANS References
  • ANS Position Statement 18, The Safety of
    Transporting Radioactive Materials.
  • www.ans.org/pi/faq/transport.html
  • www.ocrwm.doe.gov/wat/transportation.shtml  
  • Available materials
  • Nuclear Power A Sustainable Source of Energy
  • Personal Radiation Dose Chart
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