A Transportation Risk Assessment Tool for Analyzing the Transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste to the Proposed Yucca Mountain Repository

Year
2001
Author(s)
Dr. Thomas I. McSweeney - Battelle Memorial Institute
Thomas Winnard - Battelle Memorial Institute
Steven Ross - Battelle-Denver
Ralph E. Best - Jason Associates Corporation
File Attachment
34593.PDF171.64 KB
Abstract
The Yucca Mountain Transportation Database was developed as a data management tool for assembling and integrating data from multiple sources to compile the potential transportation impacts presented in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada (DEIS). The database uses the results from existing models and codes such as RADTRAN, RISKIND, INTERLINE, and HIGHWAY to estimate transportation-related impacts of transporting spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from commercial reactors and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facilities to Yucca Mountain.