PRELIMINARY COST AND RISK ANALYSIS FOR TRANSPORTING SPENT FUEL AND HIGH-LEVEL WASTES TO CANDIDATE REPOSITORY SITES

The relative costs and risks of transporting nuclear wastes to nine potential candidate repository sites are discussed. The calculations performed are consistent with previous TTC study, but the analyses have been updated to reflect programmatic assumptions about cask capacities and repository capacity in order to be consistent with the environmental assessments written under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Because of the complexity of the issues as well as their regional character, costs and risks should be considered to be relative indicators among the various sites.

• Corporate Authors:

  Sandia National Laboratories

  P.O. Box 5800
  Albuquerque, NM  United States  87185
• Authors:
  • Neuhauser, K S
  • Cashwell, J W
  • REARDON, P C
  • McNair, G W
• Publication Date: 1984-12

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 55 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Costs; Radioactive waste disposal; Risk analysis; Spent reactor fuels; Transportation; Waste disposal facilities
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cost analysis
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00457108
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: SAND-84-1795, TTC-0506
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 27 2004 9:39PM