ANALYSIS OF THE TRANSPORTATION ELEMENTS OF ALTERNATIVE LOGISTICS CONCEPTS FOR DISPOSAL OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has proposed to site in Tennessee a Monitored Retrievable Storage (MRS) facility for handling spent nuclear fuel. The MRS would gather spent fuel from all (or only Eastern) reactors, consolidate and repackage it, and send it on to the first nuclear waste permanent repository, which presumably will be located at a site in the West. The DOE studies supporting the MRS place considerable emphasis on the transportation advantages which can be gained by consolidating the shipments of spent fuel to permit efficient rail transport in large casks to the Western repository. This paper estimates the transportation impacts of moving spent nuclear fuel both with and without proposed MRS facility. The principal finding is that measures can be taken both with and without MRS, to reduce transport requirements. With reduced transportation requirements, the differncess in impacts between the alternative systems are relativeley small. Thus, the choice between alternative nuclear waste disposal systems should not rest on transportation and handling cost or risk.

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  • Published in conjunction with the Canadian Transportation Research Forum.
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• Authors:
  • Bronzini, M S
  • Middendorf, D P
  • Stammer Jr, R E
• Publication Date: 1987

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 221-229
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Transportation Research Forum
  • Volume: 28
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Forum
  • ISSN: 1046-1469
  • Serial URL: https://trforum.org/journal-of-the-trf/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Freight transportation; Handling and storage; Hazardous materials; Hazards; Impact studies; Logistics; Radioactive waste disposal; Railroad transportation; Risk assessment; Spent reactor fuels; Storage facilities; Waste disposal
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Freight Transportation; Highways; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00465392
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-040 635
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 29 1988 12:00AM